Planning Permission in Park Royal | Fixed-Fee Plans

An Article 4 Direction applies across Ealing, so check it before assuming Park Royal permitted development survives. The Park Royal setting is industrial fringe, new residential, which shapes what passes near Park Royal station. Park Royal sits close enough to Pitshanger that designation should be checked at the outset, not after design. That check comes before anything else on a Park Royal job.

The Park Royal Article 4 position is established at survey, before design. Rear wall, floor levels and the Park Royal station roofline are the three Park Royal constraints. The borough policy layer over every NW10 address is set out on Ealing planning. The Park Royal survey then carries into architectural drawings in Park Royal if the project runs on to construction.

A Park Royal application is not live until London Borough of Ealing validates it, which takes one to two weeks on a complete pack. Nothing is drawn for a NW10 address until the existing building is measured.

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.

Neighbour consultation on a Park Royal case runs 21 days from registration. Output for Park Royal: dimensioned PDFs at the scales the authority specifies.

Speaking to NW10 neighbours before submission avoids most of it. A Park Royal measured survey captures the roof structure as well as the plan.

Most Park Royal terraces share a flank wall, so party wall notices apply. Once consent is granted, building regulations drawings follows for the NW10 property.

Park Royal is characterised by modern apartments, post-war estates, concentrated across NW10 in the Willesden / Harlesden / Kensal Green area. Park Royal rewards a survey-first approach: the modern apartments rarely matches its own original drawings. On NW10 plots specifically, post-war stock here frequently sits inside an estate layout, so the site plan has to show the wider block, not just the curtilage. On Ealing stock it changes the party wall position. Height on a Park Royal proposal is measured against its neighbours, not against a policy number; the Park Royal station terraces set that datum.

Ealing sets no special basement rule, so a Park Royal lower-ground scheme stands or falls on the engineering and the neighbours. If a Park Royal project extends into loft conversion drawings for NW10 properties or house extension drawings, the survey is already done.

What the Park Royal drawing pack contains

Here is what a NW10 instruction actually produces.

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

Local landmarks that shape a Park Royal application

• Ayresome Park — side returns where the 45-degree amenity test decides how far a Ayresome Park extension goes.
• Hanger Hill — roof profiles that set the ridge datum Ealing Council measures a Hanger Hill dormer against.
• Stonebridge Park — shared flank walls, so Stonebridge Park party structure notices go out before work starts.
• Park Royal station — massing on adjoining NW10 plots is tested against it.
• Central Middlesex Hospital — sightlines from here are part of the Ealing Council character assessment.
• Old Oak Common — it fixes the local datum a Park Royal roof extension is judged against.

Getting to a Park Royal survey

Surveyors travel to NW10 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Park Royal, Hanger Lane, Stonebridge Park station, Harlesden station. Appointments are booked in Park Royal on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard modern apartments takes two to three hours.

Where Park Royal sits

on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ195828. A NW10 submission is checked against exactly that location before Ealing Council will register it. Source.

Practical detail for a Park Royal submission: surveyors travel in through Park Royal and Hanger Lane and Stonebridge Park station and Harlesden station; the Park Royal post town is LONDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Ealing Council holds it.

Park Royal postcode coverage

Surveys run across NW10 (Willesden / Harlesden / Kensal Green), shared with Harlesden, Kensal Green, Willesden, Neasden throughout Ealing.

Streets and stations in Park Royal

The Park Royal streets on our books include Ayresome Park, Hanger Hill and Stonebridge Park. most Park Royal sites are within walking distance of Park Royal or Hanger Lane or Stonebridge Park station.

Areas we cover around Park Royal

We take instructions from Parsons Green (SW6), Barons Court (W14), Brackenbury Village (W6), Sand's End (SW6), Ealing Broadway (W5), Acton (W3) and everywhere between them and Park Royal.

You know the number before the surveyor is booked. Price differences between Park Royal projects come from the fabric — the modern apartments, level changes, and any Pitshanger heritage requirement.

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 charge is London Borough of Ealing's, taken when the Park Royal application is lodged. London planning approval-rate dataset · Ealing planning · planning permission across London · planning permission in Parsons Green.

A chartered technologist surveys the Park Royal property and signs the drawings — the same person, start to finish. Marginal NW10 sites get checked with Ealing Council first; a refusal costs far more than the advice fee.

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.

Send us the Park Royal address and we will confirm the route before you commit. This Park Royal page was reviewed in August 2026.