Planning Permission in Nunhead | Fixed-Fee Plans

An Article 4 Direction applies across Southwark, so check it before assuming Nunhead permitted development survives. The fabric of Nunhead is Victorian terraces around the cemetery, so a SE15 proposal is judged on fit before it is judged on size. Of the 43 conservation areas Southwark designates, Borough and Camberwell Grove are the ones that most often change how a Nunhead project is routed. That boundary is verified for the SE15 property at the outset.

We map how Article 4 directions bite across SE15 before a line is drawn. Measure a SE15 property and the victorian terraces answers most of it — where the original rear wall sat, and what height the Nunhead street will carry. The borough policy layer over every SE15 address is set out on Southwark planning. The Nunhead survey then carries into house extension drawings in Nunhead if the project runs on to construction.

Validation at London Borough of Southwark is the first delay a Nunhead applicant meets. A surveyor measures the Nunhead property before any SE15 design begins.

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.

Amendments during the Nunhead determination are handled without a resubmission where possible. The SE15 pack is issued at 1:100 and 1:50 with a 1:1250 location plan.

The Nunhead consultation period is where a weak scheme is exposed. Everything drawn for a SE15 address traces back to a measurement taken on site.

Shared walls are the norm in Nunhead; the notice period is not optional. Once consent is granted, architectural drawings follows for the SE15 property.

Nunhead is characterised by victorian terraces, concentrated across SE15 in the Peckham / Nunhead area. Every Nunhead scheme starts from what is actually there: victorian terraces, surveyed to the millimetre before a proposal is drawn. Reading that across to Nunhead stock: most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans, elevations, a site plan and a location plan. On Southwark stock it changes the party wall position. The prevailing Nunhead eaves line is the reference Southwark Council uses, which is why the proposed elevation is drawn with the neighbours on it.

Subterranean work in Nunhead has no dedicated borough policy behind it; the SE15 water table and the party walls are the real constraints. The same Nunhead drawings carry through to building regulations drawings for SE15 properties and loft conversion drawings.

What the Nunhead drawing pack contains

The drawing schedule for a Nunhead project runs as follows.

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

Local landmarks that shape a Nunhead application

• Telegraph Hill — shared flank walls, so Telegraph Hill party structure notices go out before work starts.
• Nunhead Cemetery — nearby victorian terraces takes its scale from this frontage.
• Nunhead Cemetery — nearby victorian terraces takes its scale from this frontage.
• Tower Bridge — sightlines from here are part of the Southwark Council character assessment.

Getting to a Nunhead survey

Surveyors travel to SE15 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Nunhead, Blackfriars station, London Victoria station, Liverpool Street station. Appointments are booked in Nunhead on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard victorian terraces takes two to three hours.

Where Nunhead sits

Nunhead lies 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Charing Cross, on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ355755. Every Nunhead application opens with a location plan tied to that grid square; get it wrong and Southwark Council returns the submission unvalidated. Source.

Practical detail for a Nunhead submission: transport for Nunhead runs through Nunhead and Blackfriars station and London Victoria station and Liverpool Street station; correspondence uses LONDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Southwark Council holds it.

Nunhead postcode coverage

Nunhead work spans SE15 (Peckham / Nunhead), shared with Peckham, with the SE15 boundary setting which designations bite.

Streets and stations in Nunhead

We survey Nunhead addresses on Telegraph Hill. most Nunhead sites are within walking distance of Nunhead or Blackfriars station or London Victoria station.

Areas we cover around Nunhead

Nunhead sits in a patch that also takes in Poplar (E14), Shadwell (E1), Stepney (E1), Barbican (EC2Y), Smithfield (EC1A), Fleet Street (EC4), and we work all of it as far as the Bromley boundary.

The figure is agreed before the survey and does not move. The variables on a SE15 job are structural: party walls, floor levels, and whether the Borough 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 Southwark takes the statutory fee from the Nunhead applicant. London planning approval-rate dataset · Southwark planning · the London planning permission pillar page · planning permission in Poplar.

The technologist who surveys your Nunhead property signs the drawings. Not every Nunhead scheme is clear-cut. Where Borough or the Nunhead Cemetery setting is in play, Southwark Council pre-application advice comes before the SE15 submission.

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.

Tell us the SE15 address and what you want to build; the rest we handle. This Nunhead page was reviewed in August 2026.