Building Regulations Drawings in Addiscombe |

No Article 4 Direction covers Croydon, which keeps the Addiscombe permitted-development route open on unlisted houses. Addiscombe reads as Edwardian terraces, and that character is precisely what a Croydon Council case officer tests a proposal against. Of the 24 conservation areas Croydon designates, Shirley Park and South Norwood are the ones that most often change how a Addiscombe project is routed. We confirm the CR0 designation at survey rather than assuming it.

How Article 4 directions apply to your Addiscombe street is settled at survey stage, not after submission. Rear wall, floor levels and the Addiscombe Road roofline are the three Addiscombe constraints. The borough policy layer over every CR0 address is set out on Croydon planning. The Addiscombe survey then carries into house extension drawings in Addiscombe if the project runs on to construction.

The CR0 bottleneck is validation. London Borough of Croydon needs one to two weeks, and a missing drawing resets it. Survey first: we measure the Addiscombe property in person, then draw the existing plans, sections and elevations from that data.

Statutory periods: 8 weeks from validation for a householder application, 13 weeks for a major scheme, 6 weeks for prior approval with a 21 days neighbour consultation, and 5 weeks for a full plans building control submission. A party structure notice requires one month notice and two months where excavation is involved.

Expect a site visit to the Addiscombe property during the consultation period. Nothing leaves for a Addiscombe address until it matches the local validation checklist.

Objections on a Addiscombe case usually come from the immediate neighbours, not the wider CR0 area. The Addiscombe survey records every opening, level change and structural wall.

Serve party wall notices early where CR0 neighbours share a flank wall — on Addiscombe terraces they nearly always do. Once consent is granted, architectural drawings follows for the CR0 property.

Addiscombe is characterised by edwardian terraces, concentrated across CR0 in the Croydon / Addiscombe / Shirley area. On Addiscombe streets the edwardian terraces sets the structural sequence — what can be opened up, where the load goes, how deep you can build. The Addiscombe version of that is simple: edwardian houses here are usually early cavity or solid wall, which decides whether insulation goes in the cavity or on the internal face. We resolve it before the Addiscombe design is fixed. Because Addiscombe rows are consistent, the proposed elevation is drawn with neighbours on it.

Subterranean CR0 work needs a structural case as much as a planning one. One visit to the Addiscombe address covers planning permission for CR0 properties and loft conversion drawings too.

What the Addiscombe drawing pack contains

Contents of the CR0 drawing pack:

• construction floor plans for the Addiscombe property
• sections at 1:50
• Part A structural notes
• Part L thermal build-ups
• Part B fire and escape strategy

Local landmarks that shape a Addiscombe application

• Addiscombe Railway Park — front-to-back level changes that drive the Addiscombe Railway Park section drawings.
• Ashburton Park — gardens deep enough for the 8 weeks householder route on a Ashburton Park plot.
• Addiscombe Road — schemes in view of it attract closer officer scrutiny.
• East India Company College — nearby edwardian terraces takes its scale from this frontage.
• Addiscombe Recreation Ground — massing on adjoining CR0 plots is tested against it.

Getting to a Addiscombe survey

Surveyors travel to CR0 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Addiscombe, Elmers End station, Bingham Road, East Croydon station. Appointments are booked in Addiscombe on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard edwardian terraces takes two to three hours.

Where Addiscombe sits

Addiscombe lies 9.1 miles (15 km) south of Charing Cross, on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ345665. Location and block plans for Addiscombe start from that grid square. Source.

Practical detail for a Addiscombe submission: the closest stations to a CR0 site are Addiscombe and Elmers End station and Bingham Road and East Croydon station; CR0 addresses are written to CROYDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Croydon Council holds it.

Addiscombe postcode coverage

Addiscombe work spans CR0 (Croydon / Addiscombe / Shirley), shared with Croydon, Shirley, with the CR0 boundary setting which designations bite.

Streets and stations in Addiscombe

We survey Addiscombe addresses on Addiscombe Railway Park and Ashburton Park. most Addiscombe sites are within walking distance of Addiscombe or Elmers End station or Bingham Road.

Areas we cover around Addiscombe

Addiscombe sits in a patch that also takes in Sutton (SM1), Carshalton (SM5), Cheam (SM2, SM3), Wallington (SM6), Worcester Park (KT4), Belmont (SM2), and we work all of it as far as the Merton boundary.

The variables on a CR0 job are structural: party walls, floor levels, and whether the Shirley Park designation adds a heritage statement.

Statutory application fees are set by regulation, not by the council: £548 householder, £610 for a new dwelling, £274 for a lawful development certificate, £249 for prior approval.

We invoice the drawings only; London Borough of Croydon takes the statutory fee from the Addiscombe applicant. London planning approval-rate dataset · Croydon planning · our London building regulations drawings service · building regulations drawings in Sutton.

An MCIAT chartered technologist takes the Addiscombe project from survey to decision. Where a Addiscombe case is borderline — a corner plot near Addiscombe Road, a Shirley Park frontage, a flank wall hard onto a CR0 neighbour — we buy pre-application advice from Croydon Council rather than gamble the statutory 8 weeks.

Drawings are produced by chartered members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (MCIAT), the professional body for technical design and building-regulations competence. First-time approval across our London caseload is 98%. Statutory fees shown are those in force in England in 2026 under the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) Regulations. Confirm your local authority at gov.uk and submission requirements on the Planning Portal. Studio: 71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ.

We survey Addiscombe properties within a few days of instruction. This Addiscombe page was reviewed in August 2026.