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Free planning check
Before you spend anything on drawings, send us your address and what you'd like to build. We check the planning history and constraints and reply with the likely route: permitted development, a planning application, or something more.
Free planning check
Check your address
Send your address and what you'd like to build. We aim to reply within one working day.
Want a quick answer first? Try our planning application checker for an instant report.
- FreeInitial consultationA conversation about your project, and a first view of what's possible, before any fee is agreed.
- FixedFee for each stageEvery stage is priced in writing before it starts. No hourly billing.
- 3DSee the design firstYour design is shown in 3D before it's submitted, while changes are still easy.
- FreeResubmissionIf planning is refused, we revise and resubmit at no extra design fee. Conditions
What we do
Planning history
Previous applications and decisions for your address and its neighbours.
Constraints
Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, listed buildings, flood zones and protected trees.
Permitted development
Whether your plans may be possible without a planning application.
Likely route
What you would need to apply for, and the main points the council is likely to look at.
Planning check
What's included
The quick check is free. For a written report with precedents and risks, see our feasibility studies.
- Planning history for your address
- Key constraints checked
- Permitted development position
- Reply with the likely route and next steps
Before you start
What we need, and what sits outside our fee
- From you: the property address, a few photos, and any existing drawings, planning approvals or surveys you have. We arrange the measured survey with you.
- Not in our fee: council planning and building control fees, and specialist reports a council asks for, such as a tree survey or flood risk assessment, unless your fee proposal lists them.
- Your fee proposal sets out exactly what is included for your project before any work starts.
Common questions
Is it really free?
Yes. The quick check is free and there's no obligation. If you want a full written report, with nearby precedents and the risks, we'll quote for a feasibility study first.
How quickly will you reply?
We aim to reply within one working day during office hours.
Other services
- House extensions
- Loft conversions
- Upward extensions
- Renovations and internal alterations
- Basement conversions
- Planning permission
- Lawful development certificates
- Pre-application advice
- Building regulations drawings
- Building control applications
- Structural calculations
- Structural surveys and letters of comfort
- Flat conversions
- Lease plans and licence to alter
- Change of use
- New builds
- Interior design
- 3D visualisation
- Energy and retrofit
- Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)
- Accessible home adaptations
- Commercial fit-outs and shopfronts
- Design consultations
- Party wall surveys
- Build over agreements and drainage
- Planning reports and statements
- Amendments, conditions and regularisation
- Planning appeals
- Conservation areas and listed buildings
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
- HMO planning and licensing
- Feasibility and site checks
- Measured surveys
- Building surveys
- Drawing reviews and second opinions
- Location and block plans
- Tender and construction support
- Principal designer (CDM and building regulations)
- Cost management
- Project management
- Contract administration
- Design and build
- Turnkey projects
- Landscape design
Where we work
Free planning check across London
Local planning points for the boroughs closest to our Cricklewood studio: Ealing, Harrow, Brent, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Haringey, Enfield, Barnet, Camden, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea. See all 33 boroughs.