Both approved at first submission by Hammersmith & Fulham Council in 13 weeks.
A family in Hammersmith approached us for planning + building regs full package on a victorian terraces property. Constraints: respecting streetscape rhythm typical of Hammersmith and Fulham, maintaining rear garden depth, and meeting Hammersmith & Fulham Council's design expectations for the conservation context (45 conservation areas borough-wide).
Measured survey week 1. Three design iterations balancing internal layout against external massing visible from neighbours. Two scheme massings tested against Hammersmith & Fulham Council's adopted design guidance. Chosen scheme matched existing roof pitch, used matching brick, set the new opening back from the eaves.
Submitted to Hammersmith & Fulham Council via the Planning Portal. With Article 4 in force in Hammersmith and Fulham, we confirmed our scheme retained the necessary permissions before submission. Officer comments minor, addressed in 5 days. Both approved at first submission.
Decision recorded Hammersmith & Fulham Council, statutory determination period.

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Every Hammersmith postcode district we draw in, the stock that dominates it and the authority that validates a planning drawings there. Hammersmith fees below are the statutory England rates for 2026, not planning drawings estimates.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a planning drawings |
|---|---|---|---|
| W6 | Hammersmith / Brackenbury Village | Victorian terraces, mansion blocks | W6 covers Hammersmith / Brackenbury Village only; Hammersmith & Fulham Council handles the planning drawings. |
| SW6 | Fulham | Victorian terraces, mansion blocks | Neighbouring Fulham, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
| W12 | Shepherd's Bush | Victorian and Edwardian terraces | Neighbouring Shepherd's Bush, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
| W12 | White City | Post-war estates, new-build | Neighbouring White City, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
| SW6 | Parsons Green | Victorian terraces | Neighbouring Parsons Green, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
| W14 | Barons Court | Edwardian mansion blocks, Victorian terraces | Neighbouring Barons Court, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
| W6 | Brackenbury Village | Victorian terraces | Neighbouring Brackenbury Village, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
| SW6 | Sand's End | Victorian terraces, new-build | Neighbouring Sand's End, where planning drawings work is handled by the same Hammersmith & Fulham Council case officers. |
Roof pitch, wall build-up and plot depth change every few Hammersmith streets, and each one changes what a planning drawings can achieve at that address.
Hammersmith conservation designations: there are 45 across Hammersmith & Fulham Council, Fulham Palace Road, Parsons Green, Walham Green among them. Designation costs a Hammersmith owner the permitted-development route: a planning drawings then needs a £548 householder application over 8 weeks, in place of the £249 prior approval route that takes 6 weeks. Parsons Green is the Hammersmith designation that most often changes a planning drawings design.
Hammersmith and Article 4: Article 4 removes PD for HMO conversions; restrictions on ground-floor shop-to-residential in certain streets. A planning drawings planned at a W6 address is checked against that direction first; Hammersmith & Fulham Council publishes the Hammersmith extent, and the W6 line rarely follows the Hammersmith boundary you would expect.
The building fabric around Hammersmith: Victorian and Edwardian terraces — particularly two-storey bay-fronted terraces south of the river in Fulham and Parsons Green; mansion blocks along main roads. Suburban-feel residential streets with strong conservation area coverage; well-established mansard precedents on many terraces. A planning drawings in Hammersmith is scoped against that stock first.
Sources for this Hammersmith planning drawings page: borough policies maps and conservation-area registers (2025–26), Royal Mail postcode district boundaries, the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (England) Regulations, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended, and the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
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