Single-storey, double-storey, rear and side extension drawings for Preston Park homes — measured to Brighton & Hove City Council's design guidance, delivered in days and revised free until your decision, with a free approval-odds check before you commit.
Brighton & Hove City Council granted 89% of the householder planning decisions it made in its latest published year — 2 points above the 87% England-wide householder average. The uniform Edwardian building line and matched bay fronts around the park are protected, so roof and front alterations are read against the terrace rhythm, which is where a policy-literate drawing pack earns its keep. Its dominant Georgian (1714–1837), Victorian (1837–1901) and Edwardian (1901–1910) housing stock sets the design brief on most streets.
Under Class B, a rear dormer stays permitted development up to 40m³ of added roof volume on a terrace or 50m³ on a semi-detached or detached house, while Class A allows a single-storey rear extension of 3m beyond the original rear wall on a terrace and 4m on a detached house before a full application is needed. Preston Park carries at least one Article 4 direction, and conservation areas including Preston Park, Preston Village and Stanford remove those rights outright, so we confirm your exact address before a line is drawn. A validated householder application in Preston Park is determined against an 8-week statutory target.
Preston Park (Edwardian and Victorian terraces facing the city's largest park), Preston Village (the historic village core around St Peter's church and the manor), Stanford (the planned late-Victorian Stanford estate grid), Round Hill (steep curving Regency-style and Victorian terraces above London Road), Fiveways (Edwardian family terraces around the Fiveways shops) and Springfield Road (tall Victorian terraces on the valley's western slope) — these are the Preston Park pockets our drawings cover most. Heritage designations here include Preston Park, Preston Village, Stanford and Round Hill. Brighton & Hove City Council weighs each proposal against Brighton & Hove City Plan (Parts One 2016 and Two 2022) and the relevant SPDs, where the surviving rural grain of Preston Village is guarded in fine detail against suburban infill. Streets around Preston Park and Fiveways hold many houses subdivided into flats, which sit outside householder permitted-development rights.. On roofs the borough is pitched and gabled slate roofs on the terraces and villas and hipped roofs on the larger Edwardian houses, over Victorian and Edwardian bay-fronted terraces, Arts and Crafts and Edwardian villas and the surviving cottages of Preston Village.
Preston Park homes come in a handful of recurring shapes, and each one points to a different extension. The borough is built largely from Victorian and Edwardian bay-fronted terraces, Arts and Crafts and Edwardian villas and the surviving cottages of Preston Village, so a Victorian terrace usually wants a rear or side-return infill, while an interwar semi has room for a wider single-storey wrap or a two-storey side addition. Brighton & Hove City Council judges every one of them against Brighton & Hove City Plan (Parts One 2016 and Two 2022) and the relevant SPDs, weighing footprint, height and the impact on the house next door before it looks at the elevations.
That is why the drawings decide the outcome. We set the extension depth against the permitted-development limits precisely, keep the eaves and ridge within the allowances, and plot the 45-degree daylight lines to the neighbours' windows so the case officer can see the amenity test is passed. The uniform Edwardian building line and matched bay fronts around the park are protected, so roof and front alterations are read against the terrace rhythm, so we design around it from the first sketch rather than discover it at validation.
Preston Park also protects whole streets — Preston Park, Preston Village, Stanford and Round Hill among them. Preston Park sits within the city-wide small-HMO Article 4 direction, and the Preston Park, Stanford and Round Hill conservation areas add further Article 4 controls over external works to their Victorian and Edwardian terraces. On designated land the larger-home extension route and most side extensions stop being permitted development, so we confirm your address against those layers before drawing a line.
Plenty of Preston Park extensions are permitted development and need no planning application — a single-storey rear extension within the depth and height limits is the common case. You will normally need to apply to Brighton & Hove City Council if any of these apply:
We draw the footprint, the ridge and eaves heights and the neighbours' daylight on the page — the relationships Brighton & Hove City Council's officers weigh first — and submit a validation-complete pack, whether that is a lawful development certificate, a prior-approval notification or a full householder application.
Below is Brighton & Hove City Council's real householder decision record, drawn from official planning statistics and refreshed as new data lands. Brighton & Hove consents most householder applications, and in Preston Park the deciding question is usually whether a scheme keeps the matched Edwardian frontage rather than whether it is acceptable in principle. A complete, policy-literate extension pack anticipates those pressure points before submission, which is why professionally drawn applications are decided faster and refused less often than DIY ones.
Source: MHCLG planning application statistics (householder decisions, England, 1 April 2025 - 31 March 2026). Compare every borough on our London approval-rate league table.
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Across Preston Park, Preston Village and Stanford, the extension that lands most often is the single-storey rear addition — a glazed kitchen-diner across the back of the house, kept within the permitted-development depth or taken to a full application where the ground floor wants more. On the borough's victorian and edwardian bay-fronted terraces, a side-return infill frequently pairs with it to square off the plan; on wider the surviving cottages of preston village, a two-storey side or rear extension can add a bedroom above without swallowing the garden.
The surviving rural grain of Preston Village is guarded in fine detail against suburban infill. We size the extension to the amenity and daylight tests, match the roof and materials to the host house, and keep enough garden to satisfy Brighton & Hove City Council's space standards — so the scheme answers the borough's questions before an objection can raise them. Where permitted-development rights are used up or removed, we prepare the householder application to the council's extension design guidance instead.
We draw extensions on every street in the borough. A few of the neighbourhoods where Preston Park projects come up most often:
Extension drawings for Preston Park's Edwardian and Victorian terraces facing the city's largest park — footprint-checked, daylight-tested and drawn to Brighton & Hove City Council's guidance.
Extension drawings for Preston Village's the historic village core around St Peter's church and the manor — footprint-checked, daylight-tested and drawn to Brighton & Hove City Council's guidance.
Extension drawings for Stanford's the planned late-Victorian Stanford estate grid — footprint-checked, daylight-tested and drawn to Brighton & Hove City Council's guidance.
Extension drawings for Round Hill's steep curving Regency-style and Victorian terraces above London Road — footprint-checked, daylight-tested and drawn to Brighton & Hove City Council's guidance.
Extension drawings for Fiveways's Edwardian family terraces around the Fiveways shops — footprint-checked, daylight-tested and drawn to Brighton & Hove City Council's guidance.
Extension drawings for Springfield Road's tall Victorian terraces on the valley's western slope — footprint-checked, daylight-tested and drawn to Brighton & Hove City Council's guidance.
The right extension in Preston Park depends on your house type and how much garden you can give up. This is how the main options compare on planning route and what they add.
| Extension type | Permitted development? | What it adds | What Brighton & Hove City Council checks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-storey rear | Often, within 3m/4m depth (6m/8m via prior approval) | Bigger kitchen-diner across the back | Depth, height, neighbour daylight (45°) |
| Side-return infill | Sometimes, if within width and height limits | Squares off an L-shaped ground floor | Width vs the original house, glazing to boundary |
| Two-storey rear/side | No — full application | Extra bedroom or bathroom above | Bulk, overlooking, 7m rear-boundary gap |
| Wraparound (rear + side) | No — full application | Whole-width open-plan ground floor | Combined footprint and garden retained |
Route depends on your street — conservation areas such as Preston Park and Preston Village and Article 4 directions can remove permitted-development rights.
A fixed process built around how Brighton & Hove City Council validates and decides householder extension applications — most drawings are submission-ready within seven days of survey.
Tell us your Preston Park postcode and house type. We confirm your conservation and Article 4 status, how much permitted-development depth you have left, and score your odds against live Brighton & Hove City Council decisions.
We measure the existing footprint, floor and eaves levels, boundary distances and the neighbours' window positions — the numbers the depth limits and daylight tests depend on.
Chartered designers develop the single-storey, two-storey or side extension to your brief, drawn inside the permitted-development limits or to Brighton & Hove City Council's extension design guidance.
We submit the certificate, prior-approval notice or application, manage validation and case-officer queries, and revise the drawings free until Brighton & Hove City Council issues its decision.
Not always. A single-storey rear extension up to 3 metres deep on a terrace or semi, or 4 metres on a detached house, and no higher than 4 metres, is usually permitted development. In Preston Park you will need to apply to Brighton & Hove City Council for two-storey extensions, side extensions wider than half the house, anything forward of the front wall, deeper rear extensions under the larger-home prior-approval route, and any extension in a conservation area such as Preston Park and Preston Village.
Standard permitted development allows 3 metres on a terraced or semi-detached house and 4 metres on a detached one. The larger-home extension scheme can double that to 6 or 8 metres, but it needs a prior-approval notification to Brighton & Hove City Council and a neighbour-consultation period, and it does not apply on designated land such as Preston Park's conservation areas. We confirm which route your property qualifies for before drawing.
Two-storey and double-storey extensions almost always need a full householder application to Brighton & Hove City Council, because they fall outside permitted development on most homes. The council looks closely at bulk, overlooking of neighbours and the 7-metre gap a two-storey rear extension must keep from the rear boundary. We design to those tests and show the daylight and privacy angles on the drawings. This applies to your Preston Park address specifically.
A householder planning application in Preston Park runs to a statutory eight-week target, a larger-home prior-approval notification to around six weeks including the neighbour-consultation period, and a lawful development certificate to eight weeks. Incomplete submissions stall at validation, so we submit a complete pack and manage officer queries to keep the decision on schedule. Brighton & Hove City Council is the decision-maker.
Yes — planning permission and building regulations are separate consents, and almost every extension needs both. Planning governs whether you can build it; building control governs how it is built, covering structure, insulation, drainage and fire safety. We prepare the building-regulations drawings alongside the planning set so Brighton & Hove City Council's building control or an approved inspector can sign the work off. This applies to your Preston Park address specifically.
Every house and brief is different, so we price each Preston Park extension individually and send a fixed, no-obligation quote back within one working day. It covers the full drawing pack with free revisions until Brighton & Hove City Council approves, and we tell you upfront whether your extension qualifies as permitted development. Call 020 7864 7245 to get started.
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