Planning Permission in Pitshanger | Fixed-Fee Plans

An Article 4 Direction applies across Ealing, so check it before assuming Pitshanger permitted development survives. The prevailing character of Pitshanger — Edwardian conservation area — sets what Ealing Council will accept near Pitshanger Lane and what it will resist. Of the 30 conservation areas Ealing designates, Acton Green and Hanwell are the ones that most often change how a Pitshanger project is routed. That boundary is verified for the W5 property at the outset.

That check — Article 4 directions against the Pitshanger property — happens on day one. Measure a W5 property and the edwardian villas answers most of it — where the original rear wall sat, and what height the Pitshanger street will carry. The borough policy layer over every W5 address is set out on Ealing planning. The Pitshanger survey then carries into house extension drawings in Pitshanger if the project runs on to construction.

The W5 bottleneck is validation. London Borough of Ealing needs one to two weeks, and a missing drawing resets it. Week one is a laser measured survey at your Pitshanger property; the existing plans are drawn from that survey, never from an estate agent's floorplan.

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.

Most Pitshanger householder cases are decided under delegated powers, not committee. Each W5 drawing carries the address, scale, north point and revision.

The Pitshanger consultation period is where a weak scheme is exposed. The Pitshanger survey includes the boundary line and neighbouring window positions.

The party wall step is not optional on shared Pitshanger walls, and serving late is what stalls sites. Once consent is granted, architectural drawings follows for the W5 property.

Pitshanger is characterised by edwardian villas, concentrated across W5 in the Ealing area. The edwardian villas that dominates Pitshanger behaves differently from the borough average, and the drawings follow the building rather than a house type. Where Pitshanger is concerned, edwardian houses here typically need the same householder set plus a roof plan where a dormer is proposed. That is the Pitshanger constraint Ealing Council will look for. Because the Pitshanger streetscape near Pitshanger Lane is consistent, departures in ridge height read immediately in an officer report.

A Pitshanger basement stands on its drainage and party wall evidence. We do not re-measure a W5 property for each stage of the job.

What the Pitshanger drawing pack contains

Here is what a W5 instruction actually produces.

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

Local landmarks that shape a Pitshanger application

• Pitshanger Lane — schemes in view of it attract closer officer scrutiny.

Where Pitshanger sits

and first recorded as a settlement in 1493, which is why the older Pitshanger plots have irregular boundaries. Location and block plans for Pitshanger start from that grid square. Source.

Practical detail for a Pitshanger submission: correspondence uses LONDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Ealing Council holds it.

Pitshanger postcode coverage

From W5 (Ealing), shared with Ealing Broadway, the Pitshanger process is the same but the constraints are not.

Streets and stations in Pitshanger

Areas we cover around Pitshanger

Beyond Pitshanger we cover Harlesden (NW10), Mapesbury (NW2), Kensal Green (NW10), Willesden (NW10), Neasden (NW10, NW2), Cricklewood (NW2), and cross into Hillingdon. A consent granted a mile from Pitshanger Lane is not a precedent for the plot next to it.

The variables on a W5 job are structural: party walls, floor levels, and whether the Acton Green 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.

None of the London Borough of Ealing statutory fee reaches us on a Pitshanger job. London planning approval-rate dataset · Ealing planning · planning permission in London · planning permission in Harlesden.

We are architectural technologists, MCIAT chartered, and every Pitshanger set carries that accountability. Where a Pitshanger case is borderline — a corner plot near Pitshanger Lane, a Acton Green frontage, a flank wall hard onto a W5 neighbour — we buy pre-application advice from Ealing 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.

Most Pitshanger enquiries turn into a fixed quote the same day. This Pitshanger page was reviewed in August 2026.