Measured Building Surveys · TW10 Richmond
Richmond upon Thames protects the Richmond Hill, Petersham and Ham Common conservation areas, with Richmond Park, the protected Petersham view and Ham House (National Trust) shaping policy across a very high-value area.
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A measured building survey captures your Richmond property exactly — every wall, opening, level and boundary — as the accurate base for design and planning drawings. On TW10's older terraced and villa stock around Richmond Hill, Petersham, Ham, Ham Common, walls are rarely square, so a laser-measured survey prevents costly errors before Richmond Council ever sees the application.
Leica Disto laser + BLK360 point-cloud scanning, AutoCAD and Revit deliverables, MCIAT chartered.
Across Richmond Hill, Petersham, Ham, Ham Common in TW10, the dominant property is georgian and victorian villas and terraces around richmond hill and petersham, with cottages on ham common — a premium green market. 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 Richmond Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific Richmond property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the TW10 streetscape.
Housing stock in TW10: Georgian and Victorian villas and terraces around Richmond Hill and Petersham, with cottages on Ham Common — a premium green market.
Within the district: Richmond Hill, Petersham, Ham, Ham Common.
Streets we know in TW10: the Richmond Hill terraces, the Petersham village lanes and the cottages around Ham Common. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Richmond Council weighs when assessing a measured building survey scheme.
Conservation areas: Richmond Hill, Petersham, Ham Common, Ham House. Inside these, most external work needs full planning and a Heritage Statement.
Getting around TW10: Richmond station (District line, Overground, South Western Railway) serves TW10.
Property values: The 275 sales registered in TW10 during 2025 produced a median of £832,500, well above the £725,000 struck across Richmond upon Thames as a whole on 2,715 sales. Detached houses borough-wide reached £1,650,000, from 175 transfers. Contains HM Land Registry data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026
Borough character: Highest conservation area coverage in London; Royal Parks and Thames corridor add heritage layers; design quality heavily scrutinised.
A chartered technologist attends your Richmond 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 Richmond planning applications, party wall awards and structural design.
BLK360 scan delivers a full 3D point cloud — ideal for Richmond 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.
Yes, but almost all of TW10 sits in the Richmond Hill, Petersham or Ham Common conservation areas, where extensions and roof changes need full planning with a Heritage Statement. The protected view from Richmond Hill and the setting of Richmond Park add further sensitivity. We design to the period and submit to Richmond.
Proximity to Richmond Park and the legally protected view from Richmond Hill mean the council carefully assesses height, roofline and visibility for properties on the slope. We design within those constraints and explain at survey how your position affects what is achievable.
Yes — the Ham Common conservation area and the setting of Ham House protect the village character, so even modest external changes are assessed for their heritage effect. We produce a sympathetic design and a Heritage Statement and handle the Richmond application.
With houses commonly £900,000 to well over £2m, a consented extension or loft adds significant value in one of London's most desirable green markets. The planning bar is high, so professional drawings and heritage justification matter.
Richmond 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 TW10 address.
For a TW10 project across Richmond Hill, Petersham, Ham, Ham Common, 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 Richmond Council (8 weeks for a householder application). We carry the Richmond application through every officer query to the decision.
Richmond (TW10) sits primarily in Richmond upon Thames, so applications are decided by Richmond Council. Conservation areas within TW10 include Richmond Hill, Petersham, Ham Common, Ham House, 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 Richmond — 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 Richmond Council Building Control or an approved inspector. On TW10'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 TW10 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 SW13, SW14, TW1, TW2, TW9, TW11 and TW12.
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Every TW10 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a measured building survey there. TW10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TW10 | Richmond / Ham | Georgian terraces, Victorian villas | TW10 covers Richmond / Ham only; Richmond Council handles the measured building survey. |
| TW10 | Richmond | Georgian terraces, Victorian villas | No consent is required to survey a TW10 property in Richmond. The survey comes first so that whatever Richmond Council is later asked to decide rests on measured fact rather than an assumption about the existing building. |
| TW10 | Ham | Georgian villas, post-war estates | Ham sits inside TW10. 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. |
| SW13 | Barnes | Georgian villas, Edwardian terraces | Adjoining district to TW10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Richmond upon Thames boundary. |
| SW14 | Mortlake / East Sheen | Edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Adjoining district to TW10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Richmond upon Thames boundary. |
| TW1 | Twickenham | Georgian fragments, Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas | Adjoining district to TW10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Richmond upon Thames boundary. |
| TW2 | Twickenham / Whitton | Georgian fragments, Victorian terraces, Edwardian villas | Adjoining district to TW10. A survey is a record rather than an application, so nothing about it changes at the Richmond upon Thames boundary. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few TW10 streets, and each one changes what a measured building survey can achieve at that address.
How designation changes a TW10 (Richmond / Ham) measured building survey: Richmond Council maintains 72 conservation areas, including Ham Common, Richmond Green, Kew Green. Inside any of them a TW10 (Richmond / Ham) 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. Richmond Green sets the tone for TW10 (Richmond / Ham) casework.
No blanket Article 4 over TW10 (Richmond / Ham): Richmond Council has not withdrawn permitted development across TW10 (Richmond / Ham), so a measured building survey outside a TW10 (Richmond / Ham) conservation area usually keeps it. The £274 Lawful Development Certificate is still the document a TW10 owner wants on file.
What TW10 (Richmond / Ham) is built from: Georgian in Richmond Green and Twickenham; Edwardian villas in Barnes and East Sheen; 1930s semi-detached in Whitton; riverside cottages along the Thames. Highest conservation area coverage in London; Royal Parks and Thames corridor add heritage layers; design quality heavily scrutinised. That mix decides the measured building survey route in TW10 (Richmond / Ham) more than the postcode does, and it is what a Richmond Council case officer reads first. A householder application costs £548 paid to Richmond Council direct, with 8 weeks to a decision once validated.
Sources for this TW10 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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