A fixed-fee, end-to-end service — measured survey, scaled drawings, Design & Access Statement where required, Planning Portal submission, and full agent liaison until the council's decision.
A fixed-fee, end-to-end service — measured survey, scaled drawings, Design & Access Statement where required, Planning Portal submission, and full agent liaison until the council's decision.
Housing stock in Barking and Dagenham: Becontree Estate (the world's largest council estate when built, 1920s-30s) dominates; post-war estates around Barking town; new-build riverside.
Character: Major regeneration in Barking Riverside; mostly permissive planning outside conservation pockets.
A chartered technologist visits and laser-measures every room. Typically 60–90 minutes on site.
Drafted in Revit or AutoCAD at 1:100 or 1:50. Fully annotated and council-ready.
Unlimited revisions until you approve. Shadow studies for committee-sensitive applications.
Site location plan, block plan, Design & Access Statement where required.
We lodge the application with Barking and Dagenham Council and pay statutory fees directly.
Every officer query, consultation response and amendment handled through to determination.
Single planning or regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation, complex sites.
Direct answers to the questions Barking and Dagenham homeowners ask every week about planning permission drawings.
Start a free quote →Our fixed-fee householder planning package for Barking and Dagenham starts at £840. Full planning applications (major works, change of use, flat conversions) start at £1,750. Barking and Dagenham Council charges a separate statutory fee of £258 for householder or £578 for full dwellinghouse applications.
Once validated, Barking and Dagenham Council aims to decide householder applications within 8 weeks and major applications within 13 weeks — consistent with statutory targets. Our typical end-to-end timeline from instruction to submission is 3–4 weeks.
Barking and Dagenham does not currently have a borough-wide Article 4 Direction for residential extensions or HMO conversions. Most householder permitted development rights apply normally in Barking and Dagenham — though conservation areas and listed buildings still restrict PD. We confirm at the free site survey.
Barking and Dagenham has 9 designated conservation areas, including Becontree Estate (historic), Eastbury, Valence House. Planning applications within conservation areas require additional heritage consideration and often a Heritage Statement.
For most householder work in Barking and Dagenham, a chartered architectural technologist delivers the same planning outcomes as a dedicated consultant — usually at lower cost. Our MCIAT-chartered team handles drawings, submission and agent liaison as one package.
We cover every London borough with the same fixed-fee approach. If your property sits on a boundary, here are the neighbouring options.
We cover every architectural technology service in Barking and Dagenham with one chartered team.
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Free quote in 60 seconds. Fixed fee from £840. MCIAT chartered.
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