Measured Building Surveys · SE10 Greenwich
SE10 includes the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage Site setting; Greenwich applies the strictest control near the park and West Greenwich.
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A measured building survey captures your Greenwich property exactly — every wall, opening, level and boundary — as the accurate base for design and planning drawings. On SE10's older terraced and villa stock around Greenwich, West Greenwich, Maze Hill, Greenwich Peninsula, walls are rarely square, so a laser-measured survey prevents costly errors before Greenwich Council ever sees the application.
Leica Disto laser + BLK360 point-cloud scanning, AutoCAD and Revit deliverables, MCIAT chartered.
Across Greenwich, West Greenwich, Maze Hill, Greenwich Peninsula in SE10, the dominant property is georgian and victorian terraces around greenwich town and the park, with riverside new-build on the peninsula and conservation-area houses on the hill. 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 Greenwich Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific Greenwich property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the SE10 streetscape.
Housing stock in SE10: Georgian and Victorian terraces around Greenwich town and the park, with riverside new-build on the Peninsula and conservation-area houses on the hill.
Within the district: Greenwich, West Greenwich, Maze Hill, Greenwich Peninsula.
Streets we know in SE10: the West Greenwich streets (Royal Hill, Gloucester Circus), the Maze Hill terraces and Croom's Hill. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Greenwich Council weighs when assessing a measured building survey scheme.
Conservation areas: Greenwich Park, West Greenwich, Ashburnham Triangle. Inside these, most external work needs full planning and a Heritage Statement.
Getting around SE10: Greenwich and Maze Hill rail and DLR, plus North Greenwich on the Jubilee line and the riverbus.
Regeneration: Greenwich falls within or beside the Greenwich Peninsula (one of Europe's largest regeneration schemes), which shapes local planning policy and design expectations.
Property values: around £450,000 for a flat and £850,000-£1.4m for a house — a useful gauge of the build value an extension or loft adds in SE10.
Borough character: World Heritage Site status in Greenwich town centre adds heritage weight; outer borough areas (Eltham, Thamesmead) generally permissive.
A chartered technologist attends your Greenwich property with a Leica Disto laser and BLK360 scanner. Typical 2–3 bed terrace surveyed in 90 minutes.
Drafted in AutoCAD or Revit at 1:50 or 1:100 to ±3mm accuracy. Every room, opening, fitting and service annotated.
All four elevations plus cross-sections — essential for Greenwich planning applications, party wall awards and structural design.
BLK360 scan delivers a full 3D point cloud — ideal for Greenwich period properties, listed buildings or complex geometry.
DWG, RVT, PDF and IFC exports — compatible with your architect, structural engineer or contractor.
RICS-compliant accuracy report — ±3mm point-to-point, ±5mm absolute. Sign-off for council, party wall surveyor or insurer.
Single planning or building-regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation or complex sites.
Heavily. West Greenwich and the area around Greenwich Park sit within the setting of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, with conservation areas and many listed houses, so external changes need full planning, often Listed Building Consent, with detailed heritage scrutiny. We design to that standard and produce the documentation required.
Yes, but most of these streets are in conservation areas, so rear and side extensions and any roof change need full planning with a Heritage Statement rather than Permitted Development. We design to match the Georgian and Victorian detailing and submit to Greenwich, carrying the application through officer queries.
The Peninsula is one of Europe's largest regeneration schemes — thousands of homes around the O2 and North Greenwich — lifting values across SE10. For a conservation-area house project, though, the binding controls remain the World Heritage setting and the local designation, which we work within.
The Ashburnham Triangle is a conservation area of attractive Victorian terraces where side-return and rear extensions are common but assessed on materials and form. We design sympathetically and submit a full application with a Heritage Statement, handling the planning and Building Regulations drawings together.
With Greenwich property at around £450,000 for a flat and £850,000-£1.4m for a house, the professional drawing fee is a small fraction of the value the work adds to SE10's georgian and victorian terraces around greenwich town. Greenwich Council charges its own statutory application fee on top (currently £548 for a householder planning application, £610 for a full application). We quote the drawings as one fixed price and the free site survey covers every SE10 address.
For a SE10 project across Greenwich, West Greenwich, Maze Hill, Greenwich Peninsula, expect roughly 3–4 weeks from instruction to submission: week 1 the measured survey, weeks 2–3 the drawings and your revisions, then validation and the statutory determination by Greenwich Council (8 weeks for a householder application). We carry the Greenwich application through every officer query to the decision.
Greenwich (SE10) sits primarily in Greenwich, so applications are decided by Greenwich Council. Conservation areas within SE10 include Greenwich Park, West Greenwich, Ashburnham Triangle, where full planning and a Heritage Statement are required. We confirm the planning route for your exact address before quoting.
Almost always. Any structural work behind measured building survey in Greenwich — new openings, steel beams, loft floors, foundations — needs Building Regulations approval covering structure (Part A), fire escape (Part B) and insulation (Part L), submitted to Greenwich Council Building Control or an approved inspector. On SE10's typically terraced and semi-detached stock, a Party Wall notice to adjoining neighbours is normally required before the steelwork. We coordinate both as part of the Complete package.
In value terms, yes. The bigger risk is an unapproved or non-compliant scheme — which is why council-ready drawings and a clean Building Control sign-off matter on SE10 homes.
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Every SE10 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a measured building survey there. SE10 fees below are the statutory England rates for 2026, not measured building survey estimates.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a measured building survey |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE10 | Greenwich | Georgian terraces, listed buildings | No one grants a survey; it is a measurement job. Greenwich's SE10 streets hold Georgian and early Victorian houses whose walls are thick and whose rooms are not square, so wall thicknesses get measured at each opening rather than taken from a standard figure. |
| SE2 | Abbey Wood | mixed stock | Adjoining district to SE10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Greenwich boundary. |
| SE3 | Blackheath / Kidbrooke | Georgian villas, Victorian terraces | Adjoining district to SE10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Greenwich boundary. |
| SE7 | Charlton | Victorian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to SE10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Greenwich boundary. |
| SE9 | Eltham / Mottingham | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | Adjoining district to SE10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Greenwich boundary. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few SE10 streets, and each one changes what a measured building survey can achieve at that address.
SE10 (Greenwich) conservation designations: there are 20 across Greenwich Council, Charlton, Eltham Park, Greenwich Town Centre (World Heritage Site) among them. Designation costs a SE10 (Greenwich) owner the permitted-development route: a measured building survey then needs a £548 householder application over 8 weeks, in place of the £249 prior approval route that takes 6 weeks. Charlton is the SE10 (Greenwich) designation that most often changes a measured building survey design.
SE10 (Greenwich) permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Greenwich Council, so a measured building survey at a SE10 address is normally still permitted development. We certify that with a £274 Lawful Development Certificate rather than leaving a SE10 (Greenwich) sale to argue it later.
SE10 (Greenwich) housing stock: Georgian in Greenwich town centre; Victorian terraces in East Greenwich, Charlton; inter-war semi-detached in Eltham; new-build along the riverside. World Heritage Site status in Greenwich town centre adds heritage weight; outer borough areas (Eltham, Thamesmead) generally permissive. Read that before choosing a measured building survey route in SE10 (Greenwich) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Greenwich Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Sources for this SE10 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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