Planning Drawings · Barnet
Planning Permission Drawings in Barnet
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They are read against a borough that approves close to the London average and loses more appeals than any other. Barnet approved 83.5% of 4,584 householder decisions, and the Inspectorate allowed 47.2% of the 1,078 appeals that followed a refusal.
| Measure | Barnet | London |
|---|---|---|
| Householder approval rate | 83.5% | 83.0% |
| Householder decisions made | 4,584 | 77,680 |
| Householder appeals allowed after refusal | 49.1% of 927 | 40.8% of 13,067 |
| Decided inside eight weeks | 91.8% | — |
| Enforcement notices issued | 309 | 3,554 |
| Planning drawing package | from £840 | our fixed fee |
| Householder planning application fee | £548 | statutory, England 2026 |
Sources: decision and enforcement figures from MHCLG District Planning Application Statistics (PS1 and PS2), twelve quarters to March 2026; appeals from Planning Inspectorate casework decided 2016–2026; the statutory fee from the Fees for Applications Regulations 2012 as amended; the package fee is our own published fixed fee. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
In Barnet — 1930s semi-detached dominates; Edwardian villas in Muswell Hill for the most part — a planning permission drawings package is the full measured-survey-to-submission drawing set London Borough of Barnet needs in order to determine an application: existing and proposed plans, elevations and sections at 1:100 and 1:50, a location and site plan, and the supporting statements the case officer asks for.
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Housing stock in Barnet: 1930s semi-detached dominates; Edwardian villas in Muswell Hill, Finchley; Garden Suburb Arts & Crafts in Hampstead Garden Suburb; post-war flats in Colindale.
Character: Suburban outer-London borough; permitted development used heavily; Hampstead Garden Suburb has its own residents' trust with additional design controls.
An architectural technologist comes out and laser-measures the house room by room, which on the average Barnet semi runs to somewhere between 60 and 90 minutes.
Sheets are built in Revit or AutoCAD at 1:100 and 1:50, annotated in full, and set out the way Barnet's validation team expects to receive them.
Unlimited revisions until you approve. Shadow studies for committee-sensitive applications.
Site location plan, block plan, Design & Access Statement where required.
We submit the application to Barnet Council ourselves and pay the statutory fee direct, so nothing sits waiting on a portal account you have to manage.
Every officer query, consultation response and amendment handled through to determination.
Single planning or regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation, complex sites.
Move the controls for an indicative figure. It anchors your budget — it is not a quote. Every project is priced after a site survey.
Build costs are separate and quoted by your contractor. See our published fees.
Barnet taken district by district: where we draw, what the housing is there, and which authority validates a planning drawing set from that address. Charges shown are national statutory fees for 2026, not anything we set.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a planning drawing set |
|---|---|---|---|
| N20 | Whetstone / Totteridge | 1930s semi-detached, Edwardian villas | Whetstone and Totteridge sit inside N20 without a boundary complication, so Barnet handles the drawing set under the N20 conservation mapping. |
| NW4 | Hendon | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | An NW4 address in Hendon is decided by Barnet Council under the Local Plan policies written for Hendon itself. |
| NW7 | Mill Hill | Georgian villas, 1930s detached and semi-detached | Mill Hill occupies NW7 by itself, which puts every drawing set from that district with Barnet Council and under its conservation area mapping. |
| NW9 | Colindale / Kingsbury | Post-war flats, new-build | NW9 spans Colindale and Kingsbury with the Barnet and Brent boundary running through it, so which council decides your application is settled street by street. |
| NW11 | Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb | Arts & Crafts houses, Edwardian villas | Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb fall entirely inside NW11, so Barnet validates every submission from there, with the suburb's own designation in play. |
| EN4 | East Barnet / Cockfosters | 1930s semi-detached dominates; Edwardian villas in Muswell Hill | EN4 crosses into Enfield at East Barnet and Cockfosters, so the deciding authority follows the individual address and the policies map gets read before drawings are prepared. |
| EN5 | Barnet / Arkley | Georgian fragments, 1930s semi-detached | Confirm the authority before the drawing set leaves your desk. Barnet handles applications from the London side of EN5, while addresses at the northern end of the district fall to Hertsmere Borough Council in Hertfordshire — two separate registers, two sets of article 4 directions, two validation checklists. Royal Mail drew EN5 to sort post; it has never marked a planning boundary. |
| HA8 | Edgware / Burnt Oak | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | HA8 takes in Edgware and Burnt Oak and nothing outside the borough, so Barnet determines the drawing set and applies the HA8 conservation mapping to it. |
Pitch, wall construction and rear plot depth can all differ between one Barnet street and the next street over, and each difference changes what a drawing set is able to propose.
What designation does to a Barnet drawing set: in the borough's 20 conservation areas — Monken Hadley, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Mill Hill among them — there is no permitted development left to fall back on. The route becomes a £548 householder application decided in 8 weeks in place of a £249 prior approval in 6, and the extra drawings that win it cost more than the difference between those two fees. Hendon sets the tone for how this casework is handled.
Barnet permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Barnet Council, so a planning drawing set at a N2 address is normally still permitted development. We certify that with a £274 Lawful Development Certificate rather than leaving a Barnet sale to argue it later.
Barnet housing stock: 1930s semi-detached dominates; Edwardian villas in Muswell Hill, Finchley; Garden Suburb Arts & Crafts in Hampstead Garden Suburb; post-war flats in Colindale. Suburban outer-London borough; permitted development used heavily; Hampstead Garden Suburb has its own residents' trust with additional design controls. Read that before choosing a planning drawing set route in Barnet — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Barnet Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Sources for this Barnet planning drawing set page: borough policies maps and conservation-area registers (2025–26), Royal Mail postcode district boundaries, the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (England) Regulations, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended, and the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
Appeals against Barnet on new-dwelling schemes succeed more often than they do across London: 30.7% of the 844 decided cases were allowed, against 22.4% city-wide, with 259 allowed, 581 dismissed and 4 split. Read that as a comment on refusals rather than on approvals. Schemes creating a new home — a conversion, an infill, a small development — are the riskiest thing to put in front of any council, and these 844 are only the ones refused or left undetermined.
Half of these appeals took longer than 104 days to come back, time landing on top of the council's own determination period, and the practical case for spending another fortnight on the drawings instead of a further hundred days at the Inspectorate. The setting of a listed building was in play in 5.2% of them. 97.0% were settled on written representations, with no hearing and no inquiry, which made the paperwork the entire case.
Drawn from 844 appeal decisions on new-dwelling schemes in Barnet. Planning Inspectorate casework statistics, made available under OGL v3.0.
What Barnet homeowners actually ask us about planning permission drawings, answered in a couple of sentences each.
Start a free quote →We fix our Barnet planning fee at the outset, and what sets it is the route the scheme has to take. A householder application is the simplest of them; major works, a change of use and flat conversions all carry more drawings and a longer list of supporting documents. Sitting on top of our fee is Barnet's own statutory application charge, which is set nationally. Current figures are on our fees page.
Once validated, Barnet works to 8 weeks on householder cases and 13 on majors, and it broadly hits the first: 3,222 of 3,508 measured householder decisions came inside 8 weeks, 91.8%, where London as a whole managed 92.5% (MHCLG PS1/PS2, retrieved 1 September 2026). Our own stretch, instruction to submission, is 3 to 4 weeks.
Barnet does not currently have a borough-wide Article 4 Direction for residential extensions or HMO conversions. Most householder permitted development rights apply normally in Barnet — though conservation areas and listed buildings still restrict PD. We confirm at the site survey.
Twenty conservation areas are designated across the borough, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Mill Hill and Hendon among the better known of them. Inside one, the application carries a heritage dimension the case officer has to weigh, and in practice that means a Heritage Statement plus elevations drawn in the context of the street instead of in isolation.
On householder work a architectural technologist reaches the same result as a separate planning consultant, and usually for less. Barnet granted 3,828 householder applications and refused 756 out of 4,584 decided (MHCLG PS1/PS2, retrieved 1 September 2026): 83.5%, effectively level with the 83.0% recorded across the 33 boroughs. The borough is neither soft nor hostile, which leaves the quality of the submission as the variable. Our CIAT-affiliated team handles the drawings, the submission and the officer correspondence as one piece of work.
We cover all Barnet postcodes — N2, N3, N10, N11, N12, N14, N20, NW2, NW4, NW7, NW9, NW11, EN4, EN5 — as well as the immediately adjacent boroughs. Survey appointments are available within 3 working days across Barnet.
The 1930s semi is Barnet's default house: 21.2% of 160,460 dwellings date from that single decade (VOA CTSOP4.1, 31 March 2025), and with 20 conservation areas the borough reads design quality closely. Water is the constraint that catches people out, though usually in the opposite direction to what they expect. Just 2.40% of Barnet's 86.77 square kilometres lies in Flood Zone 3, and 3.45% in Zone 2 (Environment Agency, Flood Zones 2 and 3, retrieved 1 September 2026). So the large majority of addresses here need no Flood Risk Assessment at all; the exceptions sit along the borough's river corridors, and there the assessment goes in with the application rather than after a refusal. Case officers are experienced, and a consistent, well-drawn submission moves faster than one that arrives in instalments.
Yes. An appeal to the Planning Inspectorate is available as of right within 12 weeks of a refusal. Written representations generally run 16 to 20 weeks, a hearing 24 to 32. We prepare appeal statements and revised drawings where the refusal turned on design or on how a policy was read, rather than on something fundamental about the site.
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