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 Hackney: Victorian terraces dominate; large post-war estates around Hackney Wick; Georgian fragments in De Beauvoir and Stoke Newington; new-build around the Olympic Park.
Character: Young demographic; high design-quality bar in planning; mansards routinely approved in rear-of-terrace positions within conservation areas following the Hackney design guide.
Article 4: Article 4 Direction covers HMO conversions borough-wide and office-to-residential in specific commercial zones.
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 Hackney 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 Hackney homeowners ask every week about planning permission drawings.
Start a free quote →Our fixed-fee householder planning package for Hackney starts at £840. Full planning applications (major works, change of use, flat conversions) start at £1,750. Hackney Council charges a separate statutory fee of £258 for householder or £578 for full dwellinghouse applications.
Once validated, Hackney 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.
Yes — Hackney has Article 4 Directions in force. Article 4 Direction covers HMO conversions borough-wide and office-to-residential in specific commercial zones. Article 4 removes specific permitted development rights that would otherwise apply, meaning full planning permission is required where PD would normally be sufficient. We check Article 4 status for your specific property before quoting.
Hackney has 29 designated conservation areas, including De Beauvoir Town, Stoke Newington, Dalston Lane and others. Planning applications within conservation areas require additional heritage consideration and often a Heritage Statement.
For most householder work in Hackney, 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 Hackney with one chartered team.
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Free quote in 60 seconds. Fixed fee from £840. MCIAT chartered.
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