Measured Building Surveys · SE22 East Dulwich
SE22 is decided by Southwark Council. East Dulwich is one of London's strongest family-extension markets — rows of Victorian and Edwardian bay-fronted terraces ideal for side-return and rear extensions and loft dormers, mostly outside conservation areas, though the Dulwich fringe and Estate land carry tighter controls.
If your property sits elsewhere in the borough, the borough-wide page for measured building surveys in Southwark covers the same service across every ward.
A measured building survey captures your East Dulwich property exactly — every wall, opening, level and boundary — as the accurate base for design and planning drawings. On SE22's older terraced and villa stock around East Dulwich, Lordship Lane, Peckham Rye, Dulwich, walls are rarely square, so a laser-measured survey prevents costly errors before Southwark Council ever sees the application.
Leica Disto laser + BLK360 point-cloud scanning, AutoCAD and Revit deliverables, MCIAT chartered.
Across East Dulwich, Lordship Lane, Peckham Rye, Dulwich in SE22, the dominant property is victorian and edwardian terraces and bay-fronted villas across east dulwich, with larger semi-detached houses towards dulwich and the lordship lane shopping streets. 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 Southwark Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific East Dulwich property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the SE22 streetscape.
Housing stock in SE22: Victorian and Edwardian terraces and bay-fronted villas across East Dulwich, with larger semi-detached houses towards Dulwich and the Lordship Lane shopping streets.
Within the district: East Dulwich, Lordship Lane, Peckham Rye, Dulwich.
Conservation areas: East Dulwich, Dulwich Village fringe, Peckham Rye. Inside these, most external work needs full planning and a Heritage Statement.
Getting around SE22: East Dulwich and North Dulwich (Southern), Peckham Rye nearby.
Property values: approx £750k, £1.5m for houses, £725k for flats (Land Registry, 2024), a useful gauge of the build value an extension or loft adds in SE22.
Borough character: Dulwich Estate private planning scheme affects much of SE21 and SE22; Southwark planning for rest of borough; strong heritage context.
A chartered technologist attends your East Dulwich 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 East Dulwich planning applications, party wall awards and structural design.
BLK360 scan delivers a full 3D point cloud — ideal for East Dulwich 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.
East Dulwich SE22 is dominated by Victorian and Edwardian bay-fronted terraces with the classic side return, and Southwark Council routinely approves single-storey rear and side-return extensions under Permitted Development on these houses. It's one of the busiest family-extension markets in south London. We check your street is outside the East Dulwich conservation area and any Dulwich Estate land before relying on PD.
It can. Part of the Dulwich area is managed by the Dulwich Estate scheme of management, which adds a private consent on top of council planning for some properties towards the SE22/SE21 fringe. Most core East Dulwich terraces around Lordship Lane are unaffected. We confirm whether your address carries a Dulwich Estate consent requirement as well as Southwark planning before designing.
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces of East Dulwich SE22 take a rear or L-shaped dormer loft conversion well, often combined with a side-return kitchen extension below for a full family reconfiguration. Larger semi-detached houses can take a hip-to-gable plus dormer. We design to the roof type and confirm whether full planning or a Lawful Development Certificate is the right route.
With East Dulwich property at approx £750k, £1.5m for houses, £725k for flats (Land Registry, 2024), the professional drawing fee is a small fraction of the value the work adds to SE22's victorian and edwardian terraces and bay-fronted villas. Southwark 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 SE22 address.
For a SE22 project across East Dulwich, Lordship Lane, Peckham Rye, Dulwich, 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 Southwark Council (8 weeks for a householder application). We carry the East Dulwich application through every officer query to the decision.
East Dulwich (SE22) sits primarily in Southwark, so applications are decided by Southwark Council. Conservation areas within SE22 include East Dulwich, Dulwich Village fringe, Peckham Rye, 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 East Dulwich — 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 Southwark Council Building Control or an approved inspector. On SE22'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. With East Dulwich (SE22) property at approx £750k, £1.5m for houses, £725k for flats (Land Registry, 2024), a well-designed extension or loft typically returns more than it costs in added floor area and sale value. 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 SE22 homes.
If your site sits close to the edge of the borough, it is worth checking the authority next door. Browse everything we do in SE5, SE15, SE21 and SE24.
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Every SE22 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a measured building survey there. SE22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE22 | East Dulwich | Victorian and Edwardian terraces | SE22 covers East Dulwich only; Southwark Council handles the measured building survey. |
| SE1 | Bermondsey / Borough / Waterloo | Georgian terraces, post-war flats, new-build | Adjoining district to SE22. Surveying needs no consent here either — Southwark has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| SE5 | Camberwell | Georgian villas, Victorian terraces | Adjoining district to SE22. Surveying needs no consent here either — Southwark has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| SE15 | Peckham / Nunhead | Victorian terraces, post-war estates | Adjoining district to SE22. Surveying needs no consent here either — Southwark has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
| SE16 | Bermondsey / Rotherhithe | Warehouse conversions, Georgian terraces, new-build | Adjoining district to SE22. Surveying needs no consent here either — Southwark has no say in it, and the survey is the same record whichever side of the line the property sits. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few SE22 streets, and each one changes what a measured building survey can achieve at that address.
SE22 (East Dulwich) conservation designations: there are 43 across Southwark Council, Borough, Camberwell Grove, Bermondsey Street among them. Designation costs a SE22 (East Dulwich) 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. Bermondsey Street is the SE22 (East Dulwich) designation that most often changes a measured building survey design.
SE22 (East Dulwich) and Article 4: Article 4 for HMOs borough-wide; additional Article 4 for office-to-residential in Bermondsey and Elephant & Castle. A measured building survey planned at a SE22 address is checked against that direction first; Southwark Council publishes the SE22 (East Dulwich) extent, and the SE22 line rarely follows the SE22 (East Dulwich) boundary you would expect.
What SE22 (East Dulwich) is built from: Georgian and Regency in Bermondsey and Borough; Victorian terraces in Camberwell and Peckham; Dulwich Estate controlled housing; riverside new-build. Dulwich Estate private planning scheme affects much of SE21 and SE22; Southwark planning for rest of borough; strong heritage context. That mix decides the measured building survey route in SE22 (East Dulwich) more than the postcode does, and it is what a Southwark Council case officer reads first. A householder application costs £548 paid to Southwark Council direct, with 8 weeks to a decision once validated.
Sources for this SE22 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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Local values run approx £750,000–£1.5m for houses, £450,000–£725,000 for flats. Source: Land Registry, 2024.
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