A fixed-fee, end-to-end service — measured survey, scaled drawings, Design & Access Statement where required, Planning Portal submission, and full agent liaison until the council's decision.
A fixed-fee, end-to-end service — measured survey, scaled drawings, Design & Access Statement where required, Planning Portal submission, and full agent liaison until the council's decision.
Housing stock in Tower Hamlets: Georgian in Spitalfields and Wapping; Victorian industrial conversions; extensive post-war social housing; modern high-density towers in Canary Wharf and Aldgate.
Character: High heritage value in pockets (Spitalfields, Wapping), mixed with substantial regeneration areas; active planning committee.
Article 4: Article 4 for HMOs borough-wide; additional Article 4 covering office-to-residential in Canary Wharf and City Fringe.
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 Tower Hamlets Council and pay statutory fees directly.
Every officer query, consultation response and amendment handled through to determination.
Single planning or regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation, complex sites.
Direct answers to the questions Tower Hamlets homeowners ask every week about planning permission drawings.
Start a free quote →Our fixed-fee householder planning package for Tower Hamlets starts at £840. Full planning applications (major works, change of use, flat conversions) start at £1,750. Tower Hamlets Council charges a separate statutory fee of £258 for householder or £578 for full dwellinghouse applications.
Once validated, Tower Hamlets Council aims to decide householder applications within 8 weeks and major applications within 13 weeks — consistent with statutory targets. Our typical end-to-end timeline from instruction to submission is 3–4 weeks.
Yes — Tower Hamlets has Article 4 Directions in force. Article 4 for HMOs borough-wide; additional Article 4 covering office-to-residential in Canary Wharf and City Fringe. Article 4 removes specific permitted development rights that would otherwise apply, meaning full planning permission is required where PD would normally be sufficient. We check Article 4 status for your specific property before quoting.
Tower Hamlets has 58 designated conservation areas, including Spitalfields, Whitechapel Market, Fournier Street and others. Planning applications within conservation areas require additional heritage consideration and often a Heritage Statement.
For most householder work in Tower Hamlets, a chartered architectural technologist delivers the same planning outcomes as a dedicated consultant — usually at lower cost. Our MCIAT-chartered team handles drawings, submission and agent liaison as one package.
We cover all Tower Hamlets postcodes — {postcodes} — as well as the immediately adjacent boroughs. Survey appointments are available within 3 working days across Tower Hamlets.
Tower Hamlets's georgian in Spitalfields and Wapping housing stock and 58 conservation areas mean that design quality matters. Tower Hamlets Council officers are experienced reviewers; well-drawn, consistent applications are processed faster than revisions-heavy ones.
Yes — Planning Inspectorate appeals are available as a right within 12 weeks of refusal from Tower Hamlets Council. Written representations take 16–20 weeks; hearings 24–32 weeks. We prepare appeal statements and revised drawings for cases where refusal was on design or policy grounds.
We cover every London borough with the same fixed-fee approach. If your property sits on a boundary, here are the neighbouring options.
We cover every architectural technology service in Tower Hamlets with one chartered team.
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From £1,950. Full architectural technology service for basement digs and cellar conversions in Tower Hamlets — structural underpinnin...
From £350. Chartered structural engineer calculations for every residential intervention in Tower Hamlets — steel beams, lintels, p...
From £540. Fixed-fee measured surveys across Tower Hamlets from £540 — floor plans, elevations and sections to ±3mm accuracy. Leica...
From £450. End-to-end Party Wall Act 1996 service for Tower Hamlets — Section 1, 3 and 6 notices, schedule of condition surveys, pa...
From £1,225. London's most popular loft type — the full-width rear dormer. Planning or Permitted Development route assessed for your ...
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