Planning Permission in Tulse Hill | Fixed-Fee Plans

An Article 4 Direction applies across Lambeth, so check it before assuming Tulse Hill permitted development survives. Because Tulse Hill is Victorian villas, Edwardian terraces, the officer's assessment leans on streetscape impact around Tulse Hill station as much as on the numbers. Inside the Brixton Road boundary — one of 64 such designations in Lambeth — a Tulse Hill scheme normally goes straight to a full Lambeth Council application rather than relying on permitted development. That check comes before anything else on a Tulse Hill job.

We map how Article 4 directions bite across SE27, SW2 before a line is drawn. What the Tulse Hill building allows is established first; what Lambeth Council allows, second. The borough policy layer over every SE27, SW2 address is set out on Lambeth planning. The Tulse Hill survey then carries into building regulations drawings in Tulse Hill if the project runs on to construction.

The SE27, SW2 bottleneck is validation. London Borough of Lambeth needs one to two weeks, and a missing drawing resets it. We start with a full laser survey of the Tulse Hill address so the existing set is dimensionally right before anything proposed is drawn.

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.

The SE27 case officer consults neighbours and visits before drafting a report. The SE27 pack is issued at 1:100 and 1:50 with a 1:1250 location plan.

We would rather redesign a SE27 rear elevation than argue an objection. We photograph the Tulse Hill property alongside the measurements for the record.

Serve SE27 party wall notices before work starts, not after. Once consent is granted, loft conversion drawings follows for the SE27 property.

Tulse Hill is characterised by victorian villas, edwardian terraces, concentrated across SE27, SW2 in the West Norwood / Tulse Hill area. SE27 construction is victorian villas-led, and the survey establishes what it carries. Where Tulse Hill is concerned, most applications on these Victorian streets are householder applications validated on existing and proposed plans, elevations, a site plan and a location plan. It is the first thing checked at the Tulse Hill survey. A Tulse Hill proposal that breaks the prevailing eaves line invites a refusal.

Subterranean work in Tulse Hill has no dedicated borough policy behind it; the SE27 water table and the party walls are the real constraints. The same Tulse Hill drawings carry through to house extension drawings for SE27 properties and architectural drawings.

What the Tulse Hill drawing pack contains

What lands in your inbox after a Tulse Hill survey:

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

Streets and landmarks we survey around Tulse Hill

• Herne Hill — roof profiles that set the ridge datum Lambeth Council measures a Herne Hill dormer against.
• Cressingham Gardens — terraced rear elevations — the Cressingham Gardens party wall position is drawn first.
• Brixton Hill — shared flank walls, so Brixton Hill party structure notices go out before work starts.
• Brockwell Park — roof profiles that set the ridge datum Lambeth Council measures a Brockwell Park dormer against.
• Tulse Hill station — proposals in its setting are drawn with the Tulse Hill context elevation.
• Dulwich College — proposals in its setting are drawn with the Tulse Hill context elevation.
• Strand School — it fixes the local datum a Tulse Hill roof extension is judged against.
• Tulse Hill School — nearby victorian villas takes its scale from this frontage.
• Dick Sheppard School — Lambeth Council weighs SE27 sightlines to it in the character assessment.

Getting to a Tulse Hill survey

Surveyors travel to SE27 addresses from the studio; the nearest stations are Herne Hill, Tulse Hill, Peckham Rye, London Bridge station. Appointments are booked in Tulse Hill on weekdays and Saturdays, and the measured survey of a standard victorian villas takes two to three hours.

Where Tulse Hill sits

Tulse Hill lies 5 miles (8 km) of Charing Cross, on Ordnance Survey grid reference TQ315735. We plot the Tulse Hill site from that reference rather than from a sale plan. Source.

Practical detail for a Tulse Hill submission: residents use Herne Hill and Tulse Hill and Peckham Rye and London Bridge station; post town LONDON; dialling code 020. Site plans are drawn to the address as Lambeth Council holds it.

Tulse Hill postcode coverage

We draw SE27 (West Norwood / Tulse Hill), shared with West Norwood; SW2 (Brixton Hill / Tulse Hill), shared with Brixton addresses, and Lambeth Council validates each on the address itself.

Streets and stations in Tulse Hill

Tulse Hill instructions come from Herne Hill, Cressingham Gardens, Brixton Hill and Brockwell Park among others. most Tulse Hill sites are within walking distance of Herne Hill or Tulse Hill or Peckham Rye.

Areas we cover around Tulse Hill

Our patch runs Shirley (CR0), Selhurst (SE25), Wimbledon (SW19, SW20), Wimbledon Village (SW19), Raynes Park (SW20), Morden (SM4), with Tulse Hill at its centre.

What moves the number on a Tulse Hill job is the victorian villas itself — party walls, level changes, and whether Brixton Road pulls a heritage statement into scope.

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.

On a Tulse Hill submission the statutory element is London Borough of Lambeth's, not ours. London planning approval-rate dataset · Lambeth planning · our London planning permission service · planning permission in Shirley.

We are architectural technologists, MCIAT chartered, and every Tulse Hill set carries that accountability. On a marginal Tulse Hill plot we would rather spend on Lambeth Council pre-application advice than lose 8 weeks to a refusal on a SE27 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.

We can usually confirm the Tulse Hill planning route from the address alone. This Tulse Hill page was reviewed in August 2026.