Planning Drawings · SE10 Greenwich
SE10 includes the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage Site setting; Greenwich applies the strictest control near the park and West Greenwich.
The borough-level guide to planning drawings in Greenwich sets out how the same work is handled across the rest of the authority.
Planning drawings for Greenwich start by establishing whether your scheme is Permitted Development, needs a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning from Greenwich Council. On SE10's georgian and victorian terraces around greenwich town, the recurring questions are roof additions, rear and side-return extensions, and alterations within Greenwich Park, West Greenwich, Ashburnham Triangle. We draw existing and proposed plans, elevations and a site location plan to the council's validation checklist for Greenwich, West Greenwich, Maze Hill, Greenwich Peninsula.
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 planning permission drawings 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 planning permission drawings 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 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 Greenwich Council and pay statutory fees directly.
Every officer query, consultation response and amendment handled through to determination.
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 planning permission drawings 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.
Neighbouring authorities set their own policies, and the boundary rarely matches the postcode. Full service listings for SE3 and SE9.
Pick a slot that suits you. No obligation and no sales pressure, just straight answers on your planning route.
Every SE10 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a planning drawing set there. SE10 fees below are the statutory England rates for 2026, not planning drawing set estimates.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a planning drawing set |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE10 | Greenwich | Georgian terraces, listed buildings | SE10 covers Greenwich only; Greenwich Council handles the planning drawing set. |
| SE2 | Abbey Wood | mixed stock | Adjoining district to SE10, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
| SE3 | Blackheath / Kidbrooke | Georgian villas, Victorian terraces | Adjoining district to SE10, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
| SE7 | Charlton | Victorian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to SE10, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
| SE9 | Eltham / Mottingham | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | Adjoining district to SE10, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few SE10 streets, and each one changes what a planning drawing set can achieve at that address.
Conservation areas covering SE10 (Greenwich): Greenwich Council runs 20, and Greenwich Town Centre (World Heritage Site), Blackheath, Charlton are the ones SE10 (Greenwich) owners meet most. A planning drawing set inside a SE10 (Greenwich) conservation area loses permitted development, so the SE10 (Greenwich) submission is a householder application at £548 decided in 8 weeks — not a £249 prior approval decided in 6 weeks. In Blackheath a planning drawing set is judged on the street elevation first.
SE10 (Greenwich) permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Greenwich Council, so a planning drawing set 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.
What SE10 (Greenwich) is built from: 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. That mix decides the planning drawing set route in SE10 (Greenwich) more than the postcode does, and it is what a Greenwich Council case officer reads first. A householder application costs £548 paid to Greenwich Council direct, with 8 weeks to a decision once validated.
Sources for this SE10 planning drawing set 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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