Building Regulations Drawings in Eltham |

No Article 4 Direction covers Greenwich, which keeps the Eltham permitted-development route open on unlisted houses. Eltham reads as 1930s semi-detached, Tudor fragments, and that is the context a SE9 scheme is judged in. If your Eltham address is inside Charlton, treat permitted development as reduced and plan for a full Greenwich Council application. The Eltham boundary position decides how much can be done under permitted development.

Before drawing anything for Eltham, we check Article 4 directions against the SE9 boundary. The Eltham numbers come off the building: rear wall, levels, ridge against Eltham Palace. The borough policy layer over every SE9 address is set out on Greenwich planning. The Eltham survey then carries into planning permission in Eltham if the project runs on to construction.

The SE9 bottleneck is validation. Royal Borough of Greenwich needs one to two weeks, and a missing drawing resets it. The Eltham job starts with a laser survey, not a sketch.

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.

Once Greenwich Council registers the Eltham case, the officer site visit usually follows within a fortnight. Eltham clients receive existing and proposed sheets in one indexed set.

A Eltham scheme that respects the 45-degree line rarely draws a sustained objection. The Eltham survey includes the boundary line and neighbouring window positions.

Party wall procedure catches most SE9 owners late; on Eltham stock assume it applies and serve in good time. Once consent is granted, loft conversion drawings follows for the SE9 property.

Eltham is characterised by 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats, concentrated across SE9 in the Eltham / Mottingham area. What the 1930s semi-detached in Eltham allows is a construction question first and a planning question second, and the survey answers it. Translated to the 1930s semi-detached here: 1930s cavity walls here take standard full-fill or partial-fill detailing, which keeps the Part L calculation straightforward. On Eltham plots that shows up in the section drawings. Case officers at Greenwich Council look first at whether a SE9 scheme keeps the eaves and ridge line of the Eltham row.

No borough-specific basement policy applies in Greenwich, so subterranean work at a Eltham address is judged on amenity, drainage and structural grounds. We do not re-measure a SE9 property for each stage of the job.

What the Eltham drawing pack contains

Here is what a SE9 instruction actually produces.

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

Streets and landmarks we survey around Eltham

• Sutcliffe Park — frontages visible from the highway, so Charlton materials detail governs the Sutcliffe Park elevation.
• Shooters Hill — front-to-back level changes that drive the Shooters Hill section drawings.
• Avery Hill — side returns where the 45-degree amenity test decides how far a Avery Hill extension goes.
• South Circular Road — front-to-back level changes that drive the South Circular Road section drawings.
• Trunk Road — front-to-back level changes that drive the Trunk Road section drawings.
• Middle Park — frontages visible from the highway, so Charlton materials detail governs the Middle Park elevation.
• Horn Park — frontages visible from the highway, so Charlton materials detail governs the Horn Park elevation.
• Shooter's Hill — shared flank walls, so Shooter's Hill party structure notices go out before work starts.
• Eltham Palace — Greenwich Council weighs SE9 sightlines to it in the character assessment.
• Eltham College — Greenwich Council weighs SE9 sightlines to it in the character assessment.
• Eltham Hill School — proposals in its setting are drawn with the Eltham context elevation.

Getting to a Eltham survey

Surveyors travel to SE9 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Stationers' Crown Woods Academy, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, London Victoria. Appointments are booked in Eltham on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard 1930s semi-detached takes two to three hours.

Where Eltham sits

Eltham lies 8.7 miles (14.0 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross, on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ425745, inside the Eltham and Chislehurst parliamentary constituency. That grid reference is not trivia — the Eltham site location plan is drawn over it, and Greenwich Council validates the address against it. Source.

Practical detail for a Eltham submission: local stations are Stationers' Crown Woods Academy and Charing Cross and Cannon Street and London Victoria; post town LONDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Greenwich Council holds it.

Eltham postcode coverage

We survey and draw across SE9 (Eltham / Mottingham), shared with New Eltham. The SE9 boundary decides which Greenwich designations apply to your Eltham address.

Streets and stations in Eltham

Our SE9 caseload covers Sutcliffe Park, Shooters Hill, Avery Hill, South Circular Road, Trunk Road, Middle Park, Horn Park and Shooter's Hill. most Eltham sites are within walking distance of Stationers' Crown Woods Academy or Charing Cross or Cannon Street.

Areas we cover around Eltham

We survey across Blackheath (Greenwich) (SE3), Thamesmead (SE28), Kidbrooke (SE3), New Eltham (SE9), Brockley (SE4), Forest Hill (SE23) as well as Eltham itself, plus the Newham side of the boundary.

A Eltham quote moves on what the building is, not on how long we spend: the 1930s semi-detached, the party wall position, the Charlton question.

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.

That fee is collected by Royal Borough of Greenwich when the SE9 application is lodged. London planning approval-rate dataset · Greenwich planning · building regulations drawings in London · building regulations drawings in Blackheath (Greenwich).

Eltham work is issued under MCIAT charter, the technical-design and building-regulations qualification. On a marginal Eltham plot we would rather spend on Greenwich Council pre-application advice than lose 8 weeks to a refusal on a SE9 address.

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.

The first step for a Eltham owner is a measured survey, not a design. This Eltham page was reviewed in August 2026.