Planning Drawings · W7 Hanwell
Ealing controls the Hanwell Village Green and Churchfields conservation areas; the Elizabeth line has lifted demand across W7.
This page covers one part of the borough. For the full picture — fees, timelines and the council's current position — read planning drawings in Ealing.
Planning drawings for Hanwell start by establishing whether your scheme is Permitted Development, needs a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning from Ealing Council. On W7's edwardian and inter-war terraces and semis around, the recurring questions are roof additions, rear and side-return extensions, and alterations within Hanwell Village Green, Churchfields, St Mary's Hanwell. We draw existing and proposed plans, elevations and a site location plan to the council's validation checklist for Hanwell, Boston Manor fringe, Churchfields, West Ealing fringe.
Across Hanwell, Boston Manor fringe, Churchfields, West Ealing fringe in W7, the dominant property is edwardian and inter-war terraces and semis around hanwell, with cottage-style streets near the brent valley and pockets of larger housing. 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 Ealing Council judges each on design quality and neighbour impact. We survey the specific Hanwell property, confirm the planning route — Permitted Development, a Lawful Development Certificate, or full planning — and draw a council-ready set tailored to the W7 streetscape.
Housing stock in W7: Edwardian and inter-war terraces and semis around Hanwell, with cottage-style streets near the Brent valley and pockets of larger housing.
Within the district: Hanwell, Boston Manor fringe, Churchfields, West Ealing fringe.
Streets we know in W7: the Churchfields and Golden Manor streets, Boston Road, Cuckoo Estate roads and the Hanwell village streets. Each road has its own building line, boundary treatment and precedent that Ealing Council weighs when assessing a planning permission drawings scheme.
Conservation areas: Hanwell Village Green, Churchfields, St Mary's Hanwell. Inside these, most external work needs full planning and a Heritage Statement.
Getting around W7: Hanwell on the Elizabeth line, with quick links to central London and Heathrow.
Regeneration: Hanwell falls within or beside the Elizabeth line growth corridor, which shapes local planning policy and design expectations.
Property values: the honest local number is a median rather than a band. W7 recorded 255 completed sales in 2025 with £550,000 in the middle, and the file behind that figure names every transaction, its date and its address. Contains HM Land Registry data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026
Borough character: Leafy outer-west London; Bedford Park conservation area has strict heritage controls; rest of borough generally permissive.
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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 Ealing 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 Edwardian and inter-war terraces and semis around Churchfields and Boston Road suit rear and side extensions plus loft conversions, much of it within Permitted Development outside the conservation areas, confirmed with a Lawful Development Certificate. We confirm the route and draw to Ealing's checklist.
Hanwell on the Elizabeth line has cut journey times to central London and Heathrow, lifting demand and values across W7. For a house project it improves the backdrop; your scheme is still governed by Permitted Development limits and Ealing householder policy, which we apply.
The Hanwell Village Green and Churchfields conservation areas protect the older village core and the streets around St Mary's, so external changes there need full planning with a Heritage Statement. We design sympathetically and submit to Ealing.
Usually yes on the semis and terraces — a hip-to-gable plus rear dormer within the volume allowance, confirmed by a Lawful Development Certificate, provided you're not in a conservation area. We check the constraints for your road and draw it for Building Control.
Ealing 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 W7 address.
For a W7 project across Hanwell, Boston Manor fringe, Churchfields, West Ealing 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 Ealing Council (8 weeks for a householder application). We carry the Hanwell application through every officer query to the decision.
Hanwell (W7) sits primarily in Ealing, so applications are decided by Ealing Council. Conservation areas within W7 include Hanwell Village Green, Churchfields, St Mary's Hanwell, 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 Hanwell — 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 Ealing Council Building Control or an approved inspector. On W7'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 W7 homes.
Local policy varies more between adjoining boroughs than most owners expect. Full service detail for NW10, W3, W4, W5 and W13.
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Every W7 postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a planning drawing set there. W7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| W7 | Hanwell | Edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached | Hanwell sits wholly inside W7, so Ealing Council validates every planning drawing set submitted from an W7 address. |
| W3 | Acton | Victorian and Edwardian terraces | Adjoining district to W7, also inside Ealing for planning drawing set purposes. |
| W5 | Ealing | Edwardian villas, Victorian terraces | Adjoining district to W7, also inside Ealing for planning drawing set purposes. |
| W13 | West Ealing | Edwardian terraces | Adjoining district to W7, also inside Ealing for planning drawing set purposes. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few W7 streets, and each one changes what a planning drawing set can achieve at that address.
Conservation areas covering W7 (Hanwell): Ealing Council runs 30, and Hanwell, Ealing Broadway, Pitshanger are the ones W7 (Hanwell) owners meet most. A planning drawing set inside a W7 (Hanwell) conservation area loses permitted development, so the W7 (Hanwell) submission is a householder application at £548 decided in 8 weeks — not a £249 prior approval decided in 6 weeks. In Acton Green a planning drawing set is judged on the street elevation first.
Article 4 and your W7 (Hanwell) planning drawing set: Article 4 for HMOs in specific streets in Acton, Ealing and Southall. At a W7 address that matters twice over, because Ealing Council applies the direction unevenly across W7 (Hanwell) — we read the W7 (Hanwell) policies map for the exact W7 address before quoting planning drawings.
W7 (Hanwell) housing stock: Victorian and Edwardian villas in Ealing central; 1930s semi-detached in Northolt and Hanwell; mansion blocks along main roads; Bedford Park is a listed Arts & Crafts garden suburb. Leafy outer-west London; Bedford Park conservation area has strict heritage controls; rest of borough generally permissive. Read that before choosing a planning drawing set route in W7 (Hanwell) — construction, not postcode, sets what is achievable. Ealing Council charges £548 for a householder application and has 8 weeks to determine it.
Sources for this W7 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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