Planning Permission in East Sheen | Fixed-Fee Plans

No Article 4 Direction covers Richmond upon Thames, which keeps the East Sheen permitted-development route open on unlisted houses. Being Edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached, East Sheen rewards schemes that sit quietly beside Sheen Lane. Of the 72 conservation areas Richmond upon Thames designates, Barnes Village and Ham Common are the ones that most often change how a East Sheen project is routed. A East Sheen address on the edge of the boundary is checked, not guessed.

Before drawing anything for East Sheen, we check Article 4 directions against the SW14 boundary. A SW14 survey answers most of it — where the edwardian villas allows the rear wall to go. The borough policy layer over every SW14 address is set out on Richmond upon Thames planning. The East Sheen survey then carries into house extension drawings in East Sheen if the project runs on to construction.

An incomplete East Sheen pack sits in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames validation queue. A surveyor visits the East Sheen address first; the drawings follow the measurements, never the other way round.

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 Richmond Council registers the East Sheen case, the officer site visit usually follows within a fortnight. The SW14 pack is issued at 1:100 and 1:50 with a 1:1250 location plan.

A SW14 objection about light or overlooking carries more weight than one about taste. Levels between front and rear of a East Sheen house are recorded, not assumed.

Serve party wall notices early where SW14 neighbours share a flank wall — on East Sheen terraces they nearly always do. Once consent is granted, architectural drawings follows for the SW14 property.

East Sheen is characterised by edwardian villas, 1930s semi-detached, concentrated across SW14 in the Mortlake / East Sheen area. On East Sheen plots, structure follows the edwardian villas that is already there. Reading that across to East Sheen stock: edwardian houses here typically need the same householder set plus a roof plan where a dormer is proposed. It is why the East Sheen existing set is measured, not traced. Because East Sheen rows are consistent, the proposed elevation is drawn with neighbours on it.

Digging under a East Sheen house is a structural question before a planning one. If the SW14 job later needs building regulations drawings for SW14 properties or loft conversion drawings, the existing drawings already carry the measurements.

What the East Sheen drawing pack contains

• site location plan for the East Sheen property
• block plan
• existing and proposed floor plans
• existing and proposed elevations
• Design & Access Statement

Local landmarks that shape a East Sheen application

• Richmond Park — terraced rear elevations — the Richmond Park party wall position is drawn first.
• Mortlake High Street — gardens deep enough for the 8 weeks householder route on a Mortlake High Street plot.
• High Street — roof profiles that set the ridge datum Richmond Council measures a High Street dormer against.
• Sheen Lane — a East Sheen roof extension is judged against the datum it sets.
• British Academy — Richmond Council weighs SW14 sightlines to it in the character assessment.
• Richmond Park Academy — proposals in its setting are drawn with the East Sheen context elevation.
• Tower House School — height and massing nearby are argued against this frontage.
• East Sheen Common — Richmond Council weighs SW14 sightlines to it in the character assessment.

Getting to a East Sheen survey

Surveyors travel to SW14 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Mortlake, Mortlake station. Appointments are booked in East Sheen on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard edwardian villas takes two to three hours.

Where East Sheen sits

on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ205753. Every East Sheen application opens with a location plan tied to that grid square; get it wrong and Richmond Council returns the submission unvalidated. Source.

Practical detail for a East Sheen submission: the closest stations to a SW14 site are Mortlake and Mortlake station; post town for the area is LONDON; dialling code 020; Grade II air raid shelter are listed nearby, which affects adjacent SW14 schemes. Site plans are drawn to the address as Richmond Council holds it.

East Sheen postcode coverage

From SW14 (Mortlake / East Sheen), shared with Mortlake, the East Sheen process is the same but the constraints are not.

Streets and stations in East Sheen

We survey East Sheen addresses on Richmond Park, Mortlake High Street and High Street. most East Sheen sites are within walking distance of Mortlake or Mortlake station. and Grade II air raid shelter is listed, which pulls neighbouring SW14 proposals into a setting assessment.

Areas we cover around East Sheen

East Sheen sits in a patch that also takes in Tonsleys (SW18), Nightingale Triangle (SW12), Roehampton (SW15), Fulham (SW6), Hammersmith (W6), Shepherd's Bush (W12), and we work all of it as far as the Kingston upon Thames boundary.

The fee follows the building. On East Sheen stock that means party walls, levels, and the Barnes Village heritage 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.

Statutory fees for SW14 addresses are payable to London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the day it is lodged. London planning approval-rate dataset · Richmond upon Thames planning · the London planning permission pillar page · planning permission in Tonsleys.

MCIAT charter sits behind every East Sheen submission we make, and the same person who surveys the property signs the drawings off. For difficult East Sheen sites — anything in Barnes Village, anything overlooking Sheen Lane — the pre-application route is cheap insurance.

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 can usually confirm the East Sheen planning route from the address alone. This East Sheen page was reviewed in August 2026.