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 Lewisham: Victorian and Edwardian terraces across Brockley, Honor Oak, Forest Hill; 1930s semi-detached in Catford and Hither Green; post-war mixed in Deptford.
Character: Generally permissive planning compared to central boroughs; loft conversions and side-return extensions routinely approved under PD.
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 Lewisham 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 Lewisham homeowners ask every week about planning permission drawings.
Start a free quote →Our fixed-fee householder planning package for Lewisham starts at £840. Full planning applications (major works, change of use, flat conversions) start at £1,750. Lewisham Council charges a separate statutory fee of £258 for householder or £578 for full dwellinghouse applications.
Once validated, Lewisham 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.
Lewisham does not currently have a borough-wide Article 4 Direction for residential extensions or HMO conversions. Most householder permitted development rights apply normally in Lewisham — though conservation areas and listed buildings still restrict PD. We confirm at the free site survey.
Lewisham has 30 designated conservation areas, including Blackheath, Deptford High Street, Forest Hill and others. Planning applications within conservation areas require additional heritage consideration and often a Heritage Statement.
For most householder work in Lewisham, 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 all Lewisham postcodes — {postcodes} — as well as the immediately adjacent boroughs. Survey appointments are available within 3 working days across Lewisham.
Lewisham's victorian and Edwardian terraces across Brockley, Honor Oak, Forest Hill housing stock and 30 conservation areas mean that design quality matters. Lewisham Council officers are experienced reviewers; well-drawn, consistent applications are processed faster than revisions-heavy ones.
Yes — Planning Inspectorate appeals are available as a right within 12 weeks of refusal from Lewisham Council. Written representations take 16–20 weeks; hearings 24–32 weeks. We prepare appeal statements and revised drawings for cases where refusal was on design or policy grounds.
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 Lewisham with one chartered team.
From £840. A construction-ready drawing package compliant with every Approved Document — Part A structure, Part B fire, Part L ther...
From £1,225. Every loft type across every Lewisham roof line — dormer, mansard, hip-to-gable, L-shape, Velux. LDC or full planning ro...
From £1,225. The whole spectrum — rear extensions, side returns, wraparounds, double-storey, basement digs. Planning-led design with ...
From £1,575. Lewisham's most space-efficient loft solution when PD-route dormers are blocked. Our chartered team designs mansards tha...
From £995. Turn your unused Lewisham garage into a bedroom, home office or open-plan kitchen-diner. Planning route assessment, full...
From £1,950. Full architectural technology service for basement digs and cellar conversions in Lewisham — structural underpinning des...
From £350. Chartered structural engineer calculations for every residential intervention in Lewisham — steel beams, lintels, pad fo...
From £540. Fixed-fee measured surveys across Lewisham from £540 — floor plans, elevations and sections to ±3mm accuracy. Leica Dist...
From £450. End-to-end Party Wall Act 1996 service for Lewisham — Section 1, 3 and 6 notices, schedule of condition surveys, party w...
From £1,225. London's most popular loft type — the full-width rear dormer. Planning or Permitted Development route assessed for your ...
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