A lease plan that fails HM Land Registry's requirements gets requisitioned — stalling your sale, lease extension or new lease for weeks. Our chartered lease plans are measured, scaled and red-edged to the Registry's exact standard, delivered in days and revised free until they're accepted.
HM Land Registry rejects thousands of lease plans every year, and each requisition adds weeks to a transaction. The usual culprits are mundane: a plan traced from an old marketing brochure rather than measured on site, a missing north arrow, no stated scale, demise edging that stops at the front door instead of enclosing the whole flat, or a location plan that doesn't tie the building to two named roads. Under the Land Registration Act 2002 (s.27), any lease granted for more than 7 years is a registrable disposition — every flat sale off a new lease, every statutory lease extension — so the plan must meet HM Land Registry's published standard (Practice Guide 40), and conveyancers cannot fix a defective one.
Our lease plans are produced by chartered professionals to that standard, every time: drawn to a stated metric scale of 1:100 or 1:200 for the floor plans and 1:1250 or 1:2500 for the location plan, orientated with a north arrow, and based on an accurate measured survey of the actual demise. The demised premises are edged red, other land in the title shown edged or tinted in contrasting colours, and shared areas — hallways, bin stores, gardens, parking bays — hatched or coloured and referenced so the lease wording and the plan agree with each other. Floor levels are identified, intricate boundaries enlarged, and 'do not scale' disclaimers never appear.
We prepare lease plans across London and the Home Counties for solicitors, freeholders, landlords and leaseholders — for flat sales, lease extensions, deeds of variation, right-to-manage and freehold purchases. Plans are delivered in days, supplied as print-ready PDFs sized for the deed, and if your conveyancer or the Land Registry raises any query, we amend the plan free of charge until it is accepted.
HM Land Registry requires a lease plan to be drawn to a stated metric scale — normally 1:100 or 1:200 — with a north arrow, the demised premises edged in red, and enough detail to identify the property against the Ordnance Survey map. A compliant lease plan for a London flat must include:
A fixed process that keeps your conveyancing timetable on track — most London lease plans are surveyed and delivered within days.
Send us the address and, where available, the lease or title documents. We confirm exactly what the plan must show before anyone visits site.
We survey the demise itself — every room, storage area, balcony and any garden or parking included in the lease — rather than tracing estate-agent plans.
The lease plan is drawn to scale with north arrow, red-edged demise, contrasting tints for shared and retained land, and floor-level annotation.
You and your solicitor receive print-ready PDFs sized for the deed. Any Land Registry or conveyancer query is amended free until the plan is accepted.
Tell us about your project and get a fixed, no-obligation quote back within one working day. If you don't need planning permission at all, we'll tell you that too — for free.
Solicitor, freeholder or leaseholder — the same chartered team measures, draws and stands behind the plan.
New leases over seven years must be registered with a compliant plan. We produce it before the deed is engrossed, so completion never waits on a drawing.
Extensions under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 add 90 years to a flat's term and need a plan matching the existing demise exactly; house claims under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 work the same way. We survey and replicate the demise so the new lease registers cleanly.
Correcting a defective plan or varying a demise — added loft space, reassigned parking, garden alterations — with a plan both parties and the Registry accept.
Full plan sets for developers splitting a house into flats: each demise red-edged, shared areas tinted consistently across every lease in the block.
Title plans supporting collective enfranchisement and RTM claims, showing the building, appurtenant land and boundaries beyond dispute.
Plans for licences to alter, rights of way, service-media easements and substation leases — drawn to the same registration standard.
From mansion-block flats in Westminster to converted terraces in Hackney and new-build blocks in Croydon, every plan is based on a real measured survey — because the Registry compares your plan to the Ordnance Survey map, and guesswork gets requisitioned.
It depends on the size of the demise, the number of floors and whether outside areas like gardens or parking are included — so we price each plan individually and guarantee a fixed, no-obligation quote within one working day. Amendments requested by the Land Registry or your conveyancer are free until the plan is accepted.
Whenever a lease granted for more than seven years is registered — which covers virtually every flat sold on a new lease, every statutory lease extension, and most deeds of variation that alter the demise. Without a compliant plan the Registry issues a requisition, and the application stalls until a corrected plan is lodged.
HM Land Registry expects floor plans at a stated metric scale, normally 1:100 or 1:200, and a location plan at 1:1250 in urban areas or 1:2500 in rural ones. The scale must be printed on the plan, and disclaimers such as 'do not scale' are not accepted anywhere on the drawing.
No. Marketing floor plans are not to scale, lack a north arrow, omit the red-edged demise and shared areas, and carry 'not to scale' disclaimers — all grounds for rejection. The Land Registry expects a plan based on an accurate measured survey, which is exactly what our surveyors produce on site.
Usually, yes. A statutory lease extension creates a new lease that must be registered, and if the original plan predates modern requirements — or never met them — the Registry will expect a compliant replacement. We survey the flat and draw a plan matching the existing demise so the extension registers without requisition.
Red edging marks the full extent of the demised premises — everything let to the leaseholder, including balconies, cellars, lofts within the lease, garages, gardens and allocated parking. Land Registry practice requires the red line to enclose the whole demise; other land in the title is shown in contrasting colours such as green or blue tint.
Most London lease plans are surveyed and delivered within 7 days of instruction, and urgent transactions can often be turned around faster — tell us your exchange or completion date and we will work to it. Plans arrive as print-ready PDFs sized for the deed, ready for your solicitor to attach.
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