Measured Building Surveys · NW11 Golders Green
Hampstead Garden Suburb is a nationally important conservation area governed by the Suburb Trust scheme of management as well as Barnet planning.
One district out of a large borough. Fees, timelines and how Barnet is deciding things at present are set out in measured building surveys in Barnet.
A measured building survey captures your Golders Green property exactly — every wall, opening, level and boundary — as the accurate base for design and planning drawings. On NW11's older terraced and villa stock around Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Temple Fortune, walls are rarely square, so a laser-measured survey prevents costly errors before Barnet Council ever sees the application.
Leica Disto and BLK360 point-cloud scanning; deliverables in AutoCAD and Revit; MCIAT chartered throughout.
Across Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Temple Fortune in NW11, the dominant property is arts-and-crafts and inter-war detached and semi-detached houses, including the planned hampstead garden suburb, plus golders green terraces. That stock shapes what measured building survey looks like here: the right approach for a period terrace differs from a mansion-block flat or a new-build, and Barnet Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific Golders Green property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the NW11 streetscape.
Housing stock in NW11: Arts and Crafts and interwar detached and semi-detached houses, the planned Suburb itself, and the Golders Green terraces beyond it.
Within the district: Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Temple Fortune.
Streets we know in NW11: the Hampstead Garden Suburb roads, Wildwood Road, Meadway and the Temple Fortune parades. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Barnet Council weighs when assessing a measured building survey scheme.
Conservation areas: Hampstead Garden Suburb, among the largest designations in the country. Change the outside of a house within it and you are into a full application, with the heritage case written out to go alongside.
Getting around NW11: Golders Green station on the Northern line, with buses up the hill to Hampstead and across the Suburb.
Property values: the NW11 median for 2025 came out at £1,000,000 across 237 transactions on the Land Registry's price-paid file, which is a firmer benchmark than any range an agent will offer.
Borough character: outer-London suburb, heavy reliance on permitted development, and in Hampstead Garden Suburb a residents' trust layering its own design controls over the council's.
A chartered technologist attends the Golders Green property carrying a Leica Disto alongside a BLK360, and a two- or three-bedroom terrace is generally captured in an hour and a half.
AutoCAD or Revit, drawn to 1:50 or 1:100 and accurate to plus or minus 3mm point to point. Nothing goes unlabelled: rooms, openings, fittings, services.
Every elevation, and sections cut through the house as well. Barnet will want them on a planning application, and so will a party wall surveyor and an engineer.
Point-cloud capture with the BLK360 records the building in three dimensions, which is what NW11 geometry tends to need. Arts and Crafts houses are rarely square and almost never repeat from plot to plot.
DWG, RVT, PDF and IFC all come out of the same model, so an architect, a structural engineer or a contractor can open what we send without asking for a conversion.
An accuracy report to RICS standards: accurate to plus or minus 3mm point to point, and within 5mm absolute across the whole building. It signs off for a council, for a party wall surveyor, or for an insurer.
Single planning or building-regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation or complex sites.
Exceptionally so. The Suburb is among the most tightly managed conservation areas in England, and change there is governed by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust's scheme of management as much as by Barnet's planning function. Trust consent and full planning are both normal for external work, and the Trust's reach extends to hedges and to paint colours. We design to the Suburb's published standards and run both consents.
Yes. The interwar semis and terraces around Golders Green and Temple Fortune, outside the Suburb boundary, take rear and side extensions and loft conversions well, and much of that work is permitted development with a Lawful Development Certificate to confirm it. Within the boundary, the Trust and the conservation controls both bite. Establishing which side you sit on is the first thing we do.
Almost always. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust operates a scheme of management over the original houses, so most external alteration needs Trust approval alongside Barnet planning permission. We draw to satisfy both, and advise on which of the two to lodge first.
Family extensions and lofts on the interwar stock: rear kitchen extensions, side infills, hip-to-gable lofts. It is worth knowing which stream yours falls into. Across the twelve quarters ending March 2026 Barnet refused 756 of 4,584 householder applications, or 16.5%, and 722 of 2,505 minor ones, which is 28.8%. Householder work is by some distance the more forgiving category, and a scheme that tips into the minor one is judged against a harder record. Source: MHCLG live planning statistics.
The Land Registry recorded 237 NW11 sales in 2025 at a median of £1,000,000, so what we charge to draw a scheme is a minor line beside what it adds to an Arts and Crafts or interwar house in this district. Barnet's statutory fee sits above ours: the householder application fee in England is £548, with £610 for a full planning application. Drawings go on a single fixed price, and there is no charge for coming out to measure. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
An NW11 project across Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Temple Fortune takes roughly 3 to 4 weeks to reach submission — survey in week 1, drawings and your revisions across weeks 2 and 3 — and then validation plus Barnet's statutory 8 weeks on a householder decision. Suburb addresses need the Trust's consent running alongside, and that is usually the piece that sets the calendar.
NW11 lies entirely within Barnet, so the council here decides. Whether a street carries an Article 4 direction gets checked against Barnet's own register for the address, rather than assumed in either direction. Hampstead Garden Suburb is the conservation area covering much of the district, and inside it full planning and a Heritage Statement are the norm rather than the exception.
Almost always. Once the survey turns into building work — a wall opened up, steel put over it, a new loft floor, fresh foundations — Building Regulations approval is needed. Part A takes the structure, Part L the insulation, Part B the way out in a fire, and it is lodged with Barnet, or with whichever approved inspector you would rather use. Much of NW11 is terraced or semi-detached, which means a party wall notice served on the neighbour ahead of the steelwork. The Complete package runs both.
In value terms, yes — though the honest version is that no dataset attaches a percentage uplift to an extension. What is measurable is the base it works against: a 2025 NW11 median of £1,000,000 across 237 recorded sales. The thing that genuinely costs money here is a scheme built without consent, or built away from the consent that was granted. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
Extensions on a boundary plot can involve two authorities. Everything we draw and submit is listed for N2, N3, N10, N12, N20, NW2, NW4 and NW7.
Pick a slot that suits you. No obligation and no sales pressure, just straight answers on your planning route.
The NW11 streets we draw in, what the stock is made of, and who decides an application coming from them. Fee figures below are 2026 statutory England rates.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a measured building survey |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW11 | Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb | Arts & Crafts houses, Edwardian villas | Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb together fill NW11, and Barnet Council validates every application coming out of the district. |
| NW11 | Hampstead Garden Suburb | Arts & Crafts houses, Edwardian villas | Hampstead Garden Suburb lies within NW11. A survey needs nobody's permission; it is the application afterwards that Barnet Council determines, with the Suburb Trust having its own say beforehand. |
| NW11 | Golders Green | Edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Golders Green is NW11 throughout, and Barnet Council is the planning authority for anything here that needs consent. |
| N2 | East Finchley | Edwardian terraces, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to NW11. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Barnet boundary. |
| N3 | Finchley Central | 1930s semi-detached, Edwardian villas | Adjoining district to NW11. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Barnet boundary. |
| N11 | New Southgate / Bounds Green | mixed stock | Adjoining district to NW11. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Barnet boundary. |
| N12 | North Finchley / Woodside Park | 1930s semi-detached, Edwardian villas | Adjoining district to NW11. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Barnet boundary. |
Even inside a planned suburb the houses differ. Ridge heights, the make-up of a wall and how far the garden runs vary street to street, and each governs what a scheme can reach.
How designation changes a NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) measured building survey: Barnet Council maintains 20 conservation areas, including Golders Green, Monken Hadley, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Inside any of them a NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) measured building survey cannot rely on permitted development, and the route becomes a £548 householder application determined in 8 weeks rather than a £249 prior approval in 6 weeks. Hampstead Garden Suburb sets the tone for NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) casework.
NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Barnet Council, so a measured building survey at a NW11 address is normally still permitted development. We certify that with a £274 Lawful Development Certificate rather than leaving a NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) sale to argue it later.
NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) 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 measured building survey route in NW11 (Golders Green / Hampstead Garden Suburb) — 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 NW11 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.
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