Specialist assessments
Specialist assessments for London planning applications
The documents a council asks for on top of the drawings: light, privacy, ecology, energy, transport and more. We write them in-house and show each fixed fee here.
From £359, no VAT to add
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These are the documents a council asks for on top of the drawings: light, privacy, ecology, energy, transport and more. Your council’s local validation list decides which of these an application needs. We read that list for your address first and tell you which reports it triggers, so you pay only for the ones the council will ask for.
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Specialist assessments for London planning applications
These are the documents a council asks for on top of the drawings: light, privacy, ecology, energy, transport and more.
We write them in-house, from £359, with no VAT to add.
Your council's validation list decides which an application needs. We read it for your address first, so you pay only for the ones the council will ask for.
A daylight and sunlight assessment runs BRE tests for your neighbours' windows and gardens, from £895.
A residential amenity assessment covers overlooking, outlook and enclosure, from £359.
Fees start from £359, and a basement impact assessment is from £2,950. All prices have no VAT to add.
Council application fees are paid to the council separately.
Where the law requires a licensed or accredited person, for example a licence to disturb a bat roost, we say so and arrange it inside the fee.
Send the address and the scheme. We read your council's validation list and reply with the assessments it asks for, each with its fee, in writing.
Where several assessments share a site visit, we plan them together so you are not charged twice for the same trip.
Send the address and anything you already hold, and we confirm the fee in writing before any work starts.
The full page is on our website.
Fixed fees, from
Your council’s local validation list decides which of these an application needs. We read that list for your address first and tell you which reports it triggers, so you pay only for the ones the council will ask for.
Where the law requires a licensed or accredited person for part of the work, for example a licence to disturb a bat roost, we say so and arrange it inside the fee.
Wind microclimate studies and landscape and visual impact assessments are for larger schemes than we take on; if your council asks for one, we tell you who to approach.
| Report | From |
|---|---|
| Daylight and sunlight assessmentBRE tests for your neighbours’ windows and gardens | £895 |
| Residential amenity assessmentOverlooking, outlook and enclosure | £359 |
| Transport statement (minor development)Parking survey quoted where the council asks for one | £409 |
| Energy statementCarbon and energy figures for the application | £429 |
| Biodiversity net gain assessmentStatutory metric and draft gain plan | £699 |
| Preliminary ecological appraisalHabitat walkover and desk study | £599 |
| Preliminary bat roost assessmentDaytime inspection; emergence surveys quoted | £495 |
| Tree survey (BS 5837)Tree constraints for the design | £445 |
| Basement impact assessmentScope varies by site and council | £2,950 |
| Noise impact assessmentSurvey scope varies by site | £595 |
| Phase 1 contaminated land desk studySite history and risk screening | £795 |
| Air quality assessmentScreening or detailed, as the council asks | £495 |
All prices have no VAT to add. Council application fees are paid to the council separately.
Specialist assessments: the fee in writing before you commit
From £359, no VAT to add. Send the address and anything you already hold, and we confirm the fixed fee in writing before any work starts.
Request a fixed quoteWhat happens next
Send the address and the scheme. We read your council’s validation list for that address and reply with the assessments it asks for, each with its fee, in writing.
Where several assessments share a site visit, we plan them together so you are not charged twice for the same trip.
Tell us about your property.
We check the constraints, then send a fixed fee. Messages before 3pm get a reply the same working day.