Planning Drawings · SE9 Eltham
Greenwich controls the historic Progress Estate and the Eltham Palace setting; SE9 is a settled, affordable inter-war family market.
If your property sits elsewhere in the borough, the borough-wide page for planning drawings in Greenwich covers the same service across every ward.
Planning drawings for Eltham start by establishing whether your scheme is Permitted Development, needs a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning from Greenwich Council. On SE9's inter-war semis and detached houses across eltham, the recurring questions are roof additions, rear and side-return extensions, and alterations within Progress Estate (Well Hall), Eltham Palace, Eltham High Street. We draw existing and proposed plans, elevations and a site location plan to the council's validation checklist for Eltham, Mottingham, Eltham Park, New Eltham fringe.
Across Eltham, Mottingham, Eltham Park, New Eltham fringe in SE9, the dominant property is inter-war semis and detached houses across eltham and mottingham, with the historic core around eltham palace and pockets of post-war estate. 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 Eltham property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the SE9 streetscape.
Housing stock in SE9: Inter-war semis and detached houses across Eltham and Mottingham, with the historic core around Eltham Palace and pockets of post-war estate.
Within the district: Eltham, Mottingham, Eltham Park, New Eltham fringe.
Streets we know in SE9: the Eltham Park and Progress Estate roads, Court Road, Glenesk Road and the Well Hall streets. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Greenwich Council weighs when assessing a planning permission drawings scheme.
Conservation areas: Progress Estate (Well Hall), Eltham Palace, Eltham High Street. Inside these, most external work needs full planning and a Heritage Statement.
Getting around SE9: Eltham, Mottingham and New Eltham rail to London Bridge, Cannon Street and Victoria.
Property values: £473,240 was the middle SE9 sale price in 2025; the Greenwich figure, over 2,635 sales, came to £460,000. Roughly 81% of this district's transactions fall inside that borough.
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.
Yes. The inter-war semis and detached houses around Court Road and Glenesk Road suit rear, side and loft extensions, much of it within Permitted Development outside the conservation areas, confirmed with a Lawful Development Certificate. We confirm the route and draw to Greenwich's checklist.
The Progress Estate is a celebrated First World War garden-suburb conservation area with strong, uniform arts-and-crafts character, so external changes there are tightly assessed on materials, render and roofs. We design sympathetically and submit a full application with a Heritage Statement where the designation applies.
Usually yes on the inter-war semis — a hip-to-gable plus rear dormer within the volume allowance, confirmed by a Lawful Development Certificate, provided you're not in the Progress Estate or another conservation area. We check the constraints for your road and draw it for Building Control.
A 2025 district median of £473,240 is slightly above the £460,000 Greenwich recorded over 2,635 sales, though about a fifth of SE9 lies outside that borough.
Greenwich Council charges its own statutory application fee (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 SE9 address.
For a SE9 project across Eltham, Mottingham, Eltham Park, New Eltham fringe, 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 Eltham application through every officer query to the decision.
Eltham (SE9) sits primarily in Greenwich, so applications are decided by Greenwich Council. Conservation areas within SE9 include Progress Estate (Well Hall), Eltham Palace, Eltham High Street, 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 Eltham — 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 SE9'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 SE9 homes.
Neighbouring authorities set their own policies, and the boundary rarely matches the postcode. Full service listings for SE3 and SE10.
Pick a slot that suits you. No obligation and no sales pressure, just straight answers on your planning route.
Every SE9 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a planning drawing set there. SE9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE9 | Eltham / Mottingham | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | A planning drawing set in Eltham / Mottingham may land with Greenwich Council or Bromley Council — SE9 crosses the boundary, and the SE9 policies map decides it street by street. |
| SE9 | Eltham | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | Eltham sits inside SE9; planning drawing set proposals here are determined by Greenwich Council. |
| SE9 | New Eltham | 1930s semi-detached | New Eltham sits inside SE9; planning drawing set proposals here are determined by Greenwich Council. |
| SE2 | Abbey Wood | mixed stock | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
| SE3 | Blackheath / Kidbrooke | Georgian villas, Victorian terraces | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
| SE7 | Charlton | Victorian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Greenwich for planning drawing set purposes. |
| SE20 | Anerley / Penge | Victorian and Edwardian terraces | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Bromley for planning drawing set purposes. |
| BR1 | Bromley / Bickley | Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas, post-war flats | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Bromley for planning drawing set purposes. |
| BR2 | Hayes / Keston | Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas, post-war flats | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Bromley for planning drawing set purposes. |
| BR3 | Beckenham | Edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to SE9, also inside Bromley for planning drawing set purposes. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few SE9 streets, and each one changes what a planning drawing set can achieve at that address.
Conservation areas covering SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham): Greenwich Council runs 20, and Charlton, Eltham Park, Greenwich Town Centre (World Heritage Site) are the ones SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) owners meet most. A planning drawing set inside a SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) conservation area loses permitted development, so the SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) 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.
SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Greenwich Council, so a planning drawing set at a SE9 address is normally still permitted development. We certify that with a £274 Lawful Development Certificate rather than leaving a SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) sale to argue it later.
SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) 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 planning drawing set route in SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Greenwich Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Conservation areas covering SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham): Bromley Council runs 48, and Keston, Bickley, Bromley Town are the ones SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) owners meet most. A planning drawing set inside a SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) conservation area loses permitted development, so the SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) submission is a householder application at £548 decided in 8 weeks — not a £249 prior approval decided in 6 weeks. In Chislehurst a planning drawing set is judged on the street elevation first.
SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) permitted development status: there is no borough-wide direction from Bromley Council, so a planning drawing set at a SE9 address is normally still permitted development. We certify that with a £274 Lawful Development Certificate rather than leaving a SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) sale to argue it later.
SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) housing stock: Large 1930s detached and semi-detached in Chislehurst and Bickley; Edwardian in Beckenham; Victorian in Bromley town; Metropolitan Green Belt covers significant rural-fringe land. Largest London borough by area; substantial Green Belt; conservation areas in most town centres; generally permissive elsewhere. Read that before choosing a planning drawing set route in SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Bromley Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Sources for this SE9 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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