Architectural Drawings in Crayford | Fixed-Fee Plans

No Article 4 Direction covers Bexley, which keeps the Crayford permitted-development route open on unlisted houses. Crayford reads as Victorian terraces, 1930s semi-detached, and that is the context a DA1 scheme is judged in. Crayford sits close enough to Welling that designation should be checked at the outset, not after design. We plot the Crayford site against the designation before quoting.

Every DA1 job starts with checking Article 4 directions street by street. Rear wall, floor levels and the Crayford station roofline are the three Crayford constraints. The borough policy layer over every DA1 address is set out on Bexley planning. The Crayford survey then carries into house extension drawings in Crayford if the project runs on to construction.

An incomplete Crayford pack sits in the London Borough of Bexley validation queue. The first thing we do in Crayford is measure — every room, every level change.

Statutory periods: 8 weeks from validation for a householder application, 13 weeks for a major scheme, 6 weeks for prior approval with a 21 days neighbour consultation, and 5 weeks for a full plans building control submission. A party structure notice requires one month notice and two months where excavation is involved.

After validation a Crayford application is allocated to an officer, who will visit the DA1 address. Scales, north point and drawing numbers all follow Bexley Council validation requirements.

Neighbour comment is what shapes most Crayford decisions; policy rarely decides alone. Everything drawn for a DA1 address traces back to a measurement taken on site.

On Crayford terraces the flank wall is usually shared, so the party wall notice should go out well before work starts. Once consent is granted, planning permission follows for the DA1 property.

Crayford is characterised by victorian terraces, 1930s semi-detached, concentrated across DA1 in the Crayford / Dartford fringe area. Crayford is not uniform, but the victorian terraces recurs often enough across DA1 that the structural pattern is predictable once measured. For a typical Crayford house, victorian terraces here have settled and bowed, and a survey drawn to ±3 mm catches that before the steel is ordered rather than after. On the victorian terraces in Crayford it sets the beam run. Bexley Council reads a Crayford elevation against its neighbours first.

Bexley sets no special basement rule, so a Crayford lower-ground scheme stands or falls on the engineering and the neighbours. If a Crayford project extends into building regulations drawings for DA1 properties or loft conversion drawings, the survey is already done.

What the Crayford drawing pack contains

The drawing schedule for a Crayford project runs as follows.

• laser measured survey for the Crayford property
• existing floor plans at 1:50
• proposed floor plans
• all elevations
• site and location plans

Local landmarks that shape a Crayford application

• Hall Place — roof profiles that set the ridge datum Bexley Council measures a Hall Place dormer against.
• Watling Street — side returns where the 45-degree amenity test decides how far a Watling Street extension goes.
• Slade Green — shared flank walls, so Slade Green party structure notices go out before work starts.
• Crayford station — proposals within its setting are drawn with the context elevation included.
• Haberdashers' Crayford Academy — it fixes the local datum a Crayford roof extension is judged against.

Getting to a Crayford survey

Surveyors travel to DA1 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Crayford, Charing Cross, Sidcup, Cannon Street. Appointments are booked in Crayford on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard victorian terraces takes two to three hours.

Where Crayford sits

on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ515745. A DA1 submission is checked against exactly that location before Bexley Council will register it. Source.

Practical detail for a Crayford submission: Crayford is served by Crayford and Charing Cross and Sidcup and Cannon Street; mail for Crayford routes via DARTFORD; dialling code 01322. Site plans are drawn to the address as Bexley Council holds it.

Crayford postcode coverage

DA1 (Crayford / Dartford fringe), which Crayford holds on its own — all within our Crayford survey radius.

Streets and stations in Crayford

Streets we survey in Crayford include Hall Place, Watling Street and Slade Green. most Crayford sites are within walking distance of Crayford or Charing Cross or Sidcup.

Areas we cover around Crayford

The surrounding patch — Thamesmead (SE28), Kidbrooke (SE3), New Eltham (SE9), Bromley (BR1, BR2), Beckenham (BR3), Chislehurst (BR7) — is drawn by the same team, though each street answers to its own designation.

The figure is agreed before the survey and does not move. What changes a Crayford fee is the property: victorian terraces construction, shared walls on DA1, and whether heritage input is needed.

Statutory application fees are set by regulation, not by the council: £548 householder, £610 for a new dwelling, £274 for a lawful development certificate, £249 for prior approval.

Those statutory fees go to London Borough of Bexley on submission. London planning approval-rate dataset · Bexley planning · Architectural Drawings London-wide · architectural drawings in Thamesmead.

Your Crayford drawings are produced under professional charter, not subcontracted out and rubber-stamped. Marginal DA1 sites get checked with Bexley Council first; a refusal costs far more than the advice fee.

Drawings are produced by chartered members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (MCIAT), the professional body for technical design and building-regulations competence. First-time approval across our London caseload is 98%. Statutory fees shown are those in force in England in 2026 under the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) Regulations. Confirm your local authority at gov.uk and submission requirements on the Planning Portal. Studio: 71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ.

Start with the free Crayford survey — nothing is committed until you have the fee. This Crayford page was reviewed in August 2026.