We handle your entire planning application — drawings, forms, fees, Planning Portal submission and every conversation with the council — so the only update you get is the decision. Start with a free approval-odds score built from live council data.
One team takes your project from first phone call to decision notice. Here is the whole journey — you can be as involved, or as hands-off, as you like.
Share your postcode and plans. We score your approval odds against live decision data from your borough and tell you honestly whether to apply, amend the scheme, or use permitted development instead.
We survey your property and produce the full drawing pack — existing and proposed plans, elevations and site plans — prepared by chartered professionals to your council's validation checklist, usually within 7 days.
We complete the application forms, calculate the correct planning fee, compile supporting documents and submit everything through the Planning Portal to your local planning authority.
We monitor the application, respond to your case officer's queries, negotiate amendments and revise drawings free of charge until the council issues its decision.
Submitting a planning application yourself sounds simple until you meet the reality: a validation checklist that differs in every London borough, application forms with certificates of ownership that must be legally correct, a fee schedule that changes with project type, and a Planning Portal upload that rejects wrongly scaled PDFs. Roughly one in five applications is bounced back at validation — before a planner has even looked at it — because something in the paperwork is wrong. Each bounce costs weeks.
Our planning application services exist to remove every one of those failure points. We have submitted applications to all 33 London boroughs and the surrounding Home Counties authorities, so we know which councils demand roof plans, which want daylight assessments, and which case-officer teams respond to a phone call rather than an email. Your application goes in complete, correct and argued in the language of your borough's own local plan policies.
Then we stay on it. When the case officer raises a question — and on most applications they do — we answer it the same week, amend drawings if needed, and keep the 8-week determination clock moving. You get one point of contact, plain-English updates, and a decision notice at the end. That is the whole service.
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.
To submit a planning application in London you need scaled drawings, a completed application form with the correct ownership certificate, the council's planning fee and any documents on your borough's validation checklist. In full, a valid householder application requires:
One fixed scope, one team, no surprises. If the council asks for it, we handle it.
We recommend the right route — householder, full, prior approval or a lawful development certificate — based on your project and your borough's decision record.
Chartered planning drawings plus every supporting statement your council's validation checklist demands, compiled into a single submission-ready pack.
Application forms completed correctly first time, ownership certificates checked, and the exact planning fee calculated so validation cannot reject on paperwork.
We upload, submit and confirm validation, then send you the application reference and a link to track it — the moment it is live.
All correspondence with the planning department handled for you, from validation queries to negotiated amendments, with free drawing revisions throughout.
When approval lands, we explain your conditions and, if you want, produce the building regulation drawings your builder needs to start on site.
Across London and the Home Counties, homeowners use our planning application handling because it turns an 8-to-12-week bureaucratic obstacle course into a single decision notice arriving in their inbox.
Every project and borough is different, so we quote each application individually and guarantee a fixed, no-obligation quote within one working day. The quote covers drawings, forms, submission and case-officer liaison, with free revisions until the council decides — and we will tell you upfront if you do not need to apply at all.
We typically have your drawings and paperwork submission-ready within 7 days of the survey. Once submitted and validated, your council has a statutory 8 weeks to determine a householder application. Because we submit complete and correct first time, you avoid the validation rejections that add weeks to DIY applications.
Yes — completely. We create and manage the Planning Portal submission, upload correctly formatted drawings, complete the national application form, arrange the fee and confirm validation with your council. You receive the application reference and tracking link, and never have to log into the Portal yourself.
Yes. Once your application is validated we become the agent of record, so all planning department correspondence comes to us. We answer case-officer queries, negotiate amendments and revise drawings free of charge, keeping you updated in plain English until the decision notice is issued.
We review the refusal reasons, amend the scheme and resubmit — with drawing revisions free of charge. Most London refusals are resolved through targeted changes rather than appeals, and many councils offer a free resubmission within 12 months. Our 96% approval rate means this is rarely needed, but we stay with you until you have a positive decision.
It depends on your project, property and borough — many extensions and loft conversions proceed under permitted development instead. Our free approval-odds check tells you which route applies before you spend anything, and where permitted development works we prepare a lawful development certificate so the legality is documented for future buyers.
All 33 London boroughs — from Barnet to Bromley, Ealing to Havering — plus Home Counties authorities across Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. Because we track live approval data for every local planning authority, your application is argued in the terms your specific council responds to.
Local drawings tuned to each council's design guidance, with live borough approval rates. Pick your area:
Change of use drawings in Ealing — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Ealing →Change of use drawings in Wandsworth — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
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View Bromley →Change of use drawings in Barnet — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Barnet →Change of use drawings in Harrow — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Harrow →Change of use drawings in Sutton — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Sutton →Change of use drawings in Richmond upon Thames — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Richmond upon Thames →Change of use drawings in Kingston upon Thames — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Kingston upon Thames →Change of use drawings in Camden — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Camden →Change of use drawings in Islington — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Islington →Change of use drawings in Haringey — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Haringey →Change of use drawings in Enfield — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Enfield →Change of use drawings in Waltham Forest — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Waltham Forest →Change of use drawings in Hillingdon — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Hillingdon →Change of use drawings in Hounslow — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Hounslow →Change of use drawings in Hammersmith and Fulham — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Hammersmith and Fulham →Change of use drawings in Kensington and Chelsea — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Kensington and Chelsea →Change of use drawings in Westminster — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Westminster →Change of use drawings in Merton — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Merton →Change of use drawings in Lambeth — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Lambeth →Change of use drawings in Croydon — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Croydon →Change of use drawings in Hackney — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Hackney →Change of use drawings in Newham — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Newham →Change of use drawings in Redbridge — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Redbridge →Change of use drawings in Barking and Dagenham — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Barking and Dagenham →Change of use drawings in Havering — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Havering →Change of use drawings in Greenwich — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Greenwich →Change of use drawings in Lewisham — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Lewisham →Change of use drawings in Bexley — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
View Bexley →Change of use drawings in Southwark — Class MA prior approval and full applications, drawn and evidenced. Free revisions until approval.
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