Measured Building Surveys · NW6 Kilburn
NW6 spans Camden and Brent; the Queen's Park grid and Brondesbury villas are conservation areas with character controls.
Three of them. NW6 covers Kilburn and West Hampstead across Brent, Camden and Westminster, and they behave very differently: Brent issued 399 enforcement notices in three years against Camden's 188, and Camden decided only 73.8% inside eight weeks.
| Measure | Brent | Camden | Westminster |
|---|---|---|---|
| Householder approval rate | 78.5% | 88.7% | 83.2% |
| Decided inside eight weeks | 94.3% | 73.8% | 74.5% |
| Enforcement notices issued | 399 | 188 | 419 |
| Article 4 areas in the register | 162 | 21 | 10 |
| Conservation areas | 23 | 40 | 56 |
| Survey, floor plans from | £245 | £245 | £245 |
Sources: decision and enforcement figures from MHCLG District Planning Application Statistics (PS1 and PS2), twelve quarters to March 2026; registers from the MHCLG Planning Data Platform, retrieved 1 September 2026, excluding revoked entries; the survey fee is our own published fixed fee. The first thing an NW6 survey settles is which of the three authorities determines the application.
Kilburn NW6 — local contextHow this same work runs across the rest of the authority, well beyond one postcode district, is set out in the guide to measured building surveys in Camden.
A measured building survey captures your Kilburn property exactly — every wall, opening, level and boundary — as the accurate base for design and planning drawings. On NW6's older terraced and villa stock around West Hampstead, Kilburn, Queen's Park, Brondesbury, walls are rarely square, so a laser-measured survey prevents costly errors before Camden Council ever sees the application.
Laser measurement and point-cloud capture on site, AutoCAD and Revit for the deliverables, and MCIAT chartered oversight across the whole sequence rather than a subcontracted scanning visit and a handover.
Across West Hampstead, Kilburn, Queen's Park, Brondesbury in NW6, the dominant property is victorian and edwardian terraces and mansion blocks, with larger villas around queen's park and west hampstead. 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 Camden Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific Kilburn property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the NW6 streetscape.
Housing stock in NW6: Victorian and Edwardian terraces and mansion blocks, with larger villas towards Queen's Park and West Hampstead — consistent with Camden, where 44.7% of dwellings carry a pre-1900 build period on the VOA stock count taken 31 March 2025.
Within the district: West Hampstead, Kilburn, Queen's Park, Brondesbury.
Streets we know in NW6: the Queen's Park grid, Brondesbury villas, Mill Lane and West End Lane. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Camden Council weighs when assessing a measured building survey scheme.
Conservation areas: Queen's Park, Brondesbury, West End Green and Mapesbury between them cover a large share of the district's residential streets, and within any of them, altering the exterior calls for a full application and a heritage statement to support it.
Getting around NW6: West Hampstead puts the Jubilee line, the Overground and Thameslink inside a single interchange, with Kilburn and Queen's Park serving the west of the district.
Regeneration: the district sits alongside the West Hampstead interchange growth area, and that is what drives policy expectations on density and design in the streets immediately around the stations.
Property values: £685,000 was the median NW6 sale in 2025, across 731 registered transactions — a fair reference point for weighing what an added bedroom is worth against what it costs to build. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Three councils, not one: only 56.9% of NW6 sales in 2025 fell inside Camden, with Brent taking the Kilburn High Road side and Westminster a slice at the southern end, so which of the three validates a Kilburn survey is a question about the street, not about the district. Across the twelve quarters ending 31 March 2026, Brent decided 2,843 applications, Westminster 1,294 applications and Camden 1,179 applications, all of them householder cases. The three do not read a rear extension the same way, and the address is checked against the boundary before anything is quoted. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Borough character: Camden runs from the money in Hampstead and Primrose Hill, through the dense mixed use around Camden Town and King's Cross, to the academic terraces of Bloomsbury. 44.7% of its 113,890 dwellings pre-date 1900 — the oldest stock profile of the three authorities this postcode touches.
A chartered technologist visits the Kilburn property with laser distance kit and a BLK360 scanner. On a typical two or three bedroom house the work on site runs to roughly 90 minutes.
Drawings are produced in Revit or AutoCAD, at whichever of 1:50 and 1:100 suits the sheet, held to a three-millimetre tolerance, and carries the annotation a designer actually needs: room by room, opening by opening, down to where the soil stack runs.
Four elevations and cross-sections are standard, since the planning submission, the party wall award and the engineer's design each want the building described vertically, not only in plan.
Scanning produces a point cloud in three dimensions, and on the mansion blocks and older villas around here that is what earns its keep: curved bays, deep cornices and winding stairwells are things no tape measure ever records honestly.
Deliverables leave as DWG, RVT, PDF and IFC together. Nothing is locked to our software, and nobody downstream has to redraw the base information before beginning their own part of the job.
An accuracy report to RICS standards is issued with the file, stating the point-to-point and whole-building tolerances in writing. Council officers, insurers and any party wall surveyor involved can then rely on it without going back to site to re-measure.
Single planning or building-regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation or complex sites.
Yes, though the Queen's Park grid is a conservation area of unusually uniform character, so a side-return or rear extension gets designed to the original brick, bond and detailing, and generally goes in as a full application rather than as permitted development. Dormers on those roofs are tightly controlled. We produce the drawings and the heritage statement to the standard the relevant council expects to see.
It does straddle. West Hampstead sits largely in Camden; Queen's Park, Brondesbury and the western half of Kilburn fall to Brent. The two authorities apply different conservation policies and different Article 4 controls, and with the split as close as it is here we check the individual address rather than the postcode before anything is submitted.
Some are. The larger semi-detached villas around Brondesbury and West End Lane have the plot depth for a lower-ground scheme, subject to whatever the local basement policy permits, plus structural and hydrological assessment. We produce the scheme drawings and run the engineer's calculations in parallel with them.
Partly. Three lines meeting at one interchange support values right across the district, but they change nothing about what you may build. The binding constraints on a house project stay what they were: the permitted development limits, and whichever designation covers the road — Queen's Park, Brondesbury or West End Green — which we establish before quoting.
At a 2025 median of £685,000 across the district, a drawing fee is a minor line against the value of what it protects — and NW6 Victorian and Edwardian terraces and mansion blocks are precisely the stock where an inaccurate base drawing costs real money later on. The statutory application fee is charged separately by whichever council covers your street, Camden or Brent: £548 householder, £610 full. Our own figure is fixed at the point of quoting, and the survey visit is included anywhere in the district. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Across West Hampstead, Kilburn, Queen's Park and Brondesbury, budget roughly a month from instruction to a lodged application: survey first, a fortnight for drawing and revisions after it, and then validation plus the eight-week determination period at whichever of Camden or Brent holds the address. We deal with the officer's questions until the decision arrives.
Which council you are dealing with, and how your decision gets taken, both change inside this one postcode. Camden determines 92.1% of its applications under delegated powers — officers deciding without a committee — where the 33 boroughs together run at 97.0%. That makes an application in Camden more than two and a half times as likely as the London norm to end up in front of elected members, which adds weeks and adds an audience. And only 56.9% of NW6 property sales sit on the Camden side of the line: West Hampstead and Swiss Cottage answer to Camden, while western Kilburn, Queen's Park and Brondesbury answer to Brent, with a small part of the district falling to Westminster. Both main authorities operate Article 4 controls, and the designated areas inside NW6 — Queen's Park, Brondesbury, West End Green, Mapesbury — need a full application with a heritage statement. Both of those we settle from the address itself, before a quote goes out.
Almost always. Structural work behind a survey — steel, new openings, a converted loft floor or new foundations — has to be signed off under the Building Regulations for structure, for escape, for the thermal envelope, lodged either with the council's own Building Control team or with an approved inspector. Terraces and semis being what this district mostly holds, a Party Wall Act notice normally goes out ahead of the steelwork: section 3 where the shared wall itself is being cut into, section 6 where the work involves excavating close to a neighbour's foundations. We coordinate both within the Complete package.
Usually, yes. The Land Registry price-paid file records 731 sales in NW6 through 2025 at a median of £685,000, which puts a drawing fee well inside the noise of a single transaction. The real risk runs the other way: unauthorised or non-compliant work, discovered at sale, when the certificate nobody obtained is the exact document being asked for. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Neighbouring authorities set their own policies, and the boundary rarely matches the postcode. Full service listings for N6, N19, NW1, NW2, NW3, NW5 and NW8.
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The districts we draw in around here, the stock that dominates each, and which authority signs a survey off there. The fees are England's statutory 2026 rates, and they are payable to the council rather than to us.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a measured building survey |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW6 | Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park | Mansion blocks, post-war flats | A survey in Kilburn, West Hampstead or Queen's Park may be validated by Camden or by Brent, since barely more than half of this district sits on the Camden side. |
| NW6 | Swiss Cottage | Mansion blocks, post-war flats | Swiss Cottage falls inside NW6 on the Camden side of the district, so survey and design proposals from those streets are determined by Camden Council. |
| NW6 | West Hampstead | Edwardian mansion blocks, Victorian villas | West Hampstead lies within NW6 and within Camden, which makes Camden Council the determining authority for anything proposed at one of those addresses. |
| NW6 | Kilburn | Victorian terraces, mansion blocks | Kilburn is the part of NW6 sitting west of the boundary, inside Brent, so it is Brent Council that determines proposals from those streets. |
| NW6 | Queen's Park | Edwardian villas | Queen's Park sits inside NW6. A survey is a record, not an application, so nothing is granted or refused at this stage; its accuracy is what decides whether the drawings built on it survive scrutiny. |
| N1C | King's Cross | Modern apartments, converted warehouses | Adjoining district to NW6. Surveying needs no consent here either — Camden has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| N6 | Highgate | Georgian villas, Victorian and Edwardian semis | Adjoining district to NW6. Surveying needs no consent here either — Camden has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| NW1 | Camden Town / Regent's Park | Victorian terraces, mansion blocks | Adjoining district to NW6. Surveying needs no consent here either — Camden has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| NW3 | Hampstead / Belsize Park | Georgian and Victorian villas, listed buildings | Adjoining district to NW6. Surveying needs no consent here either — Camden has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| NW2 | Cricklewood / Neasden | Edwardian villas and terraces | Adjoining district to NW6. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Brent boundary. |
| NW10 | Willesden / Harlesden / Kensal Green | Modern apartments, post-war estates | Adjoining district to NW6. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Brent boundary. |
| HA0 | Wembley / Sudbury | 1930s semi-detached, new-build | Adjoining district to NW6. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Brent boundary. |
Two streets apart in this district, pitch and wall construction and plot depth are rarely the same, and each difference changes what a survey is able to establish at a given address.
How designation changes a NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) measured building survey: Camden Council maintains 40 conservation areas, including Primrose Hill, Bloomsbury, Camden Town. Inside any of them a NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) 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. Fitzrovia sets the tone for NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) casework.
NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) and Article 4: Article 4 removes permitted development for HMO conversions (C3 to C4) across the borough, plus restrictions on basement extensions in 12 conservation areas. A measured building survey planned at a NW6 address is checked against that direction first; Camden Council publishes the NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) extent, and the NW6 line rarely follows the NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) boundary you would expect.
NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) below-ground policy: Camden's basement policy (Policy A5) restricts single-storey basements to 50% of garden area; double-storey basements generally refused outside commercial zones. Any measured building survey in NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) that goes below existing foundations triggers two months notice under section 6 of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, and Camden Council will want the NW6 ground and groundwater position set out.
NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) housing stock: Victorian and Edwardian terraces, Georgian townhouses in Bloomsbury and Hampstead, post-war mansion blocks, modern developments in King's Cross. Creative, affluent in Hampstead and Primrose Hill; dense mixed-use around Camden Town and Kings Cross; academic character in Bloomsbury. Read that before choosing a measured building survey route in NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Camden Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
How designation changes a NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) measured building survey: Brent Council maintains 22 conservation areas, including Mapesbury, Kensal Green, Harlesden. Inside any of them a NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) 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. Sudbury Court sets the tone for NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) casework.
NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) and Article 4: Article 4 for HMO conversions in specific streets around Wembley and Harlesden. A measured building survey planned at a NW6 address is checked against that direction first; Brent Council publishes the NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) extent, and the NW6 line rarely follows the NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) boundary you would expect.
NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) housing stock: Edwardian villas in Queen's Park and Mapesbury; Victorian terraces in Kilburn and Harlesden; 1930s semi-detached in Wembley; post-war tower blocks in Church End. Highly diverse borough; Queen's Park and Mapesbury are heritage-controlled; Wembley is a major regeneration hub. Read that before choosing a measured building survey route in NW6 (Kilburn / West Hampstead / Queen's Park) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Brent Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Sources for this NW6 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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