Floor plans, elevations and sections of your Bexley property, measured to 3mm and drawn the way a council, a Building Control body and an engineer each need to read them. Leica Disto and BLK360 on site, AutoCAD and Revit off it, MCIAT chartered throughout.
Because Bexley is genuinely fast, and a survey error is the one thing that reliably slows it down. It settled 97.9% of householder decisions inside eight weeks and granted 91.7% of them, a rate behind only Hammersmith and Fulham on 96.0% and Southwark on 93.8% across the 32 boroughs reporting the split. That speed figure is also unusually honest: this council agreed an extension of time on just 23.8% of its decisions where London runs at 34.5%, so almost the whole caseload sits inside the measure rather than outside it. What that leaves is a council which reads the drawings once and expects them to hold — and a ridge height or boundary taken off an old plan rather than measured is how a two-month decision becomes a five-month one.
| Measure | Bexley | London |
|---|---|---|
| Decided inside eight weeks | 97.9% | — |
| Householder approval rate | 91.7% | 83.0% |
| Householder decisions made | 2,859 | 77,680 |
| Applications withdrawn before decision | 3.0% | 7.4% |
| Enforcement notices issued | 24 | 3,554 |
| Measured survey, floor plans from | £245 | our fixed fee |
Sources: decision figures from MHCLG District Planning Application Statistics (PS1 and PS2), decisions made in the twelve quarters to March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 1 September 2026; the survey fee is our own published fixed fee. Bexley holds 31 conservation areas, none of which carries a designation date in the national register, so heritage status here has to be confirmed against the council’s own map rather than the open dataset.
A measured survey package here is the whole set the council needs to determine an application, recorded on site rather than traced from a deed plan: existing and proposed plans, elevations and sections at 1:100 and 1:50, a location and site plan, and the statements the case officer asks for. The Bexley particular is the semi-detached pair. Thirty-seven per cent of the borough's 101,740 homes were built in the 1930s, second only to Harrow across London, and on an interwar semi the party wall is rarely where either owner assumes it is. Getting that line measured rather than estimated is what keeps a party wall award straightforward.
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Floor plans, elevations and sections recorded to ±3mm with a Leica Disto and, where the geometry warrants it, a BLK360 point cloud; delivered as AutoCAD or Revit files by an MCIAT chartered technologist. One local reason the site work matters more than usual: Environment Agency Flood Zone 3 covers 18.42% of this borough along the Cray, the Shuttle and the Thames marshes. Those zones map the undefended floodplain and say nothing about whether a given house has flooded, but on a plot inside one an application will need a Flood Risk Assessment, and that assessment needs a measured ground level rather than an assumed one.
Housing stock in Bexley: one decade and then everything else. As at 31 March 2025, 37.0% of the borough's homes dated from 1930 to 1939, against 16.0% across London; a further 15.4% came between 1945 and 1964, and only 6.9% predates 1900. In survey terms that is a borough of cavity walls, hipped roofs, timber first floors and shallow strip foundations, with a small Victorian remnant around Bexley Village and Crayford where the walls are solid and the rafters are cut. The two behave differently once you start opening them up, and the survey is where you find out which you have (VOA council tax stock).
Character: permissive, and the permitted development figures bear it out. Of 282 larger householder extensions Bexley determined, 213 were told prior approval was not required and only 42 were refused — a 14.9% refusal rate against 24.9% across London. The council recorded 882 certificates of lawful development in the same twelve quarters and issued just 24 enforcement notices, which is among the lightest enforcement footprints in the capital. The conservation constraint is correspondingly small: the national register holds 31 records for Bexley covering about 174 hectares, though only 23 carry a name and none carries a designation date, so we quote extent for the named ones — Old Bexley at 20.8 hectares, Christ Church at 20.4, The Green at 14.5, The Hollies at 14.3 — and treat the total as incomplete rather than authoritative.
One chartered technologist comes out with a Leica Disto and a BLK360. A typical Bexley two or three-bed terrace is fully recorded in about 90 minutes, and nothing is left for a second visit.
Drawn up in AutoCAD or Revit, usually 1:50 for a house and 1:100 for anything larger, with every room, opening, fitting and run of services annotated exactly as found.
Every elevation and the cross-sections through the building come as standard. Those are the sheets a case officer, a party wall award and the engineer's calculations each end up reading from.
The scanner captures a point cloud rather than a list of dimensions, which is what the borough's older houses need: 6.9% of Bexley's 101,740 dwellings were put up before 1900, on the VOA's council tax stock count taken in March 2025. It is the right tool for listed buildings and for anything whose geometry is no longer square.
You get DWG, RVT, PDF and IFC together, so whoever picks the job up next — architect, structural engineer, contractor — opens the model instead of redrawing it.
An accuracy statement comes with the file — 3mm point to point, 5mm absolute — in the RICS format a case officer, a party wall surveyor or an insurer will take without argument.
Single planning or regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation, complex sites.
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The Bexley postcode districts we survey in, what was built in each and which authority validates the drawings. Figures in the last column are 2026 statutory application fees, set nationally, and have nothing to do with what a survey costs.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a measured building survey |
|---|---|---|---|
| DA8 | Erith | Victorian terraces, post-war estates | An Erith address in DA8 is Bexley's to determine under its own Local Plan, and the local character policies for Erith are what the existing building gets drawn against. |
| DA14 | Sidcup | 1930s semi-detached, Edwardian villas | Sidcup sits in DA14, again wholly within Bexley, where the Local Plan policies written for Sidcup govern what a proposal taken off the survey is allowed to do. |
| DA16 | Welling | 1930s semi-detached | Welling is DA16 and nothing else, which keeps it simple: one authority, one policies map, one validation checklist to draw to. |
| DA17 | Belvedere | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | Belvedere sits wholly inside DA17, so Bexley Council validates every measured building survey submitted from an DA17 address. |
| DA18 | Erith Marshes | 1930s semi-detached dominates; Victorian cottages in Bexley Village and Crayford; post-war estates in Thamesmead and Erith | DA18 sits wholly inside Bexley, so the council validates every application drawn from a survey here. It is also the low-lying end of the borough: Flood Zone 3 reaches 18.42% of Bexley's land (Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning, retrieved 2 September 2026), and accurate existing levels often become the first page of a Flood Risk Assessment. |
| SE2 | Abbey Wood | 1930s semi-detached dominates; Victorian cottages in Bexley Village and Crayford; post-war estates in Thamesmead and Erith | Abbey Wood is the exception. SE2 spans the Greenwich boundary, so an address there may belong to Greenwich rather than Bexley. We confirm the authority before the drawings are titled, because the two councils validate to different checklists. |
| DA1 | Crayford / Dartford fringe | Victorian terraces, 1930s semi-detached | DA1 covers Crayford / Dartford fringe only; Bexley Council handles the measured building survey, and Crayford / Dartford fringe case officers apply the DA1 conservation-area map. |
Bexley is unusually uniform stock — the VOA's March 2025 count puts 37.0% of its dwellings in the 1930 to 1939 band — and yet roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth still shift street by street, which changes what a survey has to capture at your address.
Conservation areas covering Bexley: Bexley Council runs 16, and Old Bexley, Crayford, Welling are the ones Bexley owners meet most. A measured building survey inside a Bexley conservation area loses permitted development, so the Bexley submission is a householder application at £548 decided in 8 weeks — not a £249 prior approval decided in 6 weeks. In Bexley Village a measured building survey is judged on the street elevation first.
Bexley permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Bexley Council, so a measured building survey at a DA1 address is normally still permitted development. We certify that with a £274 Lawful Development Certificate rather than leaving a Bexley sale to argue it later.
What Bexley is built from: 1930s semi-detached dominates; Victorian cottages in Bexley Village and Crayford; post-war estates in Thamesmead and Erith. Outer south-east London suburban; very permissive planning environment; strong PD uptake for extensions and loft conversions. That mix decides the measured building survey route in Bexley more than the postcode does, and it is what a Bexley Council case officer reads first. A householder application costs £548 paid to Bexley Council direct, with 8 weeks to a decision once validated.
Sources for this Bexley measured building survey 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.
The questions Bexley owners actually put to us before booking a survey, answered without the sales copy.
Start a free quote →The fee follows size and complexity, never hours. A two-bed terrace sets the baseline; a three-bed semi, a four-bed detached or a flat conversion step up from it; listed and unusually large properties are priced one at a time. Whichever band applies, floor plans, elevations and sections are all inside it, the figure is agreed before the visit and it does not move afterwards. Our fees page carries the current numbers.
Allow 60 to 120 minutes at the property depending on its size, then 5 working days for the finished CAD drawings. Where the deadline is tighter than that — a sale, an appeal window, a contractor already booked in — a 48-hour turnaround is available for a small premium.
3mm point to point and 5mm absolute, from a Leica Disto X3 with a BLK360 scan behind it. That sits inside RICS tolerance, and the drawings are accepted by Bexley planning, by Building Control, by structural engineers sizing steel off them, and by party wall surveyors preparing an award.
Yes. Interwar semis are the everyday job here; the harder cases are older. Listed buildings, houses inside a conservation area, bay windows, curved walls, roofs that have been altered twice — all of those get scanned rather than tape-measured, because the point cloud records the mouldings and the out-of-plumb walls a heritage statement later has to describe.
AutoCAD DWG, Revit RVT, flat PDFs for printing and IFC for anyone on another platform, plus the raw point cloud where the property was scanned. Plans, elevations and sections all arrive annotated, ready to go straight to your engineer or into a Bexley submission.
Yes — flats, maisonettes, HMOs and conversions across all Bexley postcodes (DA1, DA5, DA6, DA7, DA8, DA14, DA15, DA16, DA17, DA18). We handle communal areas, staircases and party walls between dwellings — essential for flat conversion planning applications or lease drawings.
Yes, and for a narrower reason than most pages give. Bexley Council validation officers read your existing drawings against the proposed set, and a mismatch between the two stops the application before anyone assesses the design. There is a second reason to get the existing record right in this borough. A stop notice is a rare instrument in London — 25 were served across all 33 boroughs on MHCLG's 2023-24 to 2025-26 returns — and Bexley served five of them, along with 24 enforcement notices and 57 planning contravention notices (PS2, Open Government Licence v3.0). Formal notices are otherwise uncommon here, about 6 enforcement notices per 1,000 decisions against roughly 22 for the pooled boroughs, but what they are served over is the gap between what was drawn and what was built. An accurate survey is the cheapest insurance against ending up in that gap, and it is the same drawing your building regulations package is built from.
We cover all Bexley postcodes — DA1, DA5, DA6, DA7, DA8, DA14, DA15, DA16, DA17, DA18 — and adjacent boroughs. Survey appointments within 3 working days, no travel charges within Greater London.
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