Floor Plans London | Measured & Drawn to Scale
Laser-measured floor plans, drawn to scale, ready in days.
Not every project needs a full planning drawing set. If you are selling or letting a property, drawing up a lease, recording a layout before a refurbishment, or simply want an accurate plan of your home, what you need is a floor plan — a scaled, dimensioned drawing of each level, measured directly from the property rather than estimated from an old plan or an estate agent's rough sketch. DrawingsDirect produces floor plans from a laser-measured site visit, so room sizes, wall thicknesses and door and window positions are accurate, not approximate.
Floor plans are commonly used for estate agency marketing and Rightmove or Zoopla listings, for lease plans required by a mortgage lender or solicitor, for landlords documenting a rental property's layout, or as a straightforward existing-layout record before any building work is decided. They are lighter than a full architectural or planning drawing set — there is no design work, no application, and no borough-specific requirements to satisfy — so turnaround is fast and the fee is correspondingly lower. If you later decide to extend, convert a loft or apply for planning permission, the same laser survey can usually be reused as the base for those drawings rather than re-measuring the property from scratch.
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What are floor plans used for?
Floor plans serve several distinct purposes in London property: estate agents use them to market a sale or letting alongside photographs, giving buyers and tenants an accurate sense of layout and scale that a floor plan on its own can convey better than photos; solicitors and lenders often require a lease plan showing the demise of a flat within a building, particularly for leasehold sales or re-mortgages; landlords use them to document a property's layout for reference, insurance or portfolio management; and homeowners use them simply to have an accurate record of their existing layout, whether for their own reference or as the first step before considering any building work.
How accurate are laser-measured floor plans?
We measure every floor plan on site using a laser distance meter rather than a tape measure or estimation from photographs, which keeps room dimensions, wall thicknesses and door and window positions accurate to within a few millimetres. This matters more than it might seem: an estate agent's marketing plan that overstates a room's size can mislead a buyer and cause problems at survey stage, while a lease plan used for legal purposes needs to accurately reflect what a leaseholder actually owns. A laser-measured plan also means that if you later want to use it as the existing-layout drawing for a planning application, it is already accurate enough to build proposed drawings on top of, rather than needing to be re-measured.
How much do floor plans cost in London?
A single floor-plan set starts from £450, which covers a laser-measured site visit and scaled, dimensioned drawings of each floor of the property. The exact fee depends on the number of floors, the overall size of the property, and whether you need elevations or a site plan in addition to the floor plans themselves — for example, for a lease plan or as the base for a future planning application. This is a fixed fee agreed upfront, with no hourly billing.
How is a floor plans instruction different from a full planning drawing set?
A floor plans instruction records what already exists — it is a measured drawing of the property as it stands, with no design, no proposed changes and no planning application attached. A full planning or architectural drawing set, by contrast, starts from that same existing-layout survey but then adds a designed proposal — a new extension, a loft conversion, or altered internal layout — along with the elevations, sections and site plan a London borough needs to determine a planning application. If you are not sure which you need, the simplest test is whether you are recording what is there or proposing to change it; many clients start with floor plans for a sale or record, then commission a full drawing set later if they decide to build.
Do floor plans include elevations or a site plan?
Not by default — a standard floor plans instruction covers scaled, dimensioned plans of each floor. Elevations (the external faces of the building) and a site plan (showing the property in its plot and relation to neighbours) can be added where they are needed, for example for a lease plan that requires an elevation, or where the floor plan is intended to double as the existing-layout base drawing for a future planning or building regulations application. Adding these at the outset is usually more cost-effective than commissioning them separately later.
| Floor plans | Full planning drawing set | |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Record of existing layout | Existing layout plus a designed proposal |
| Includes a proposed design | No | Yes |
| Submitted to the council | No | Yes, via the Planning Portal |
| Typical turnaround | A few days | Around 7 days from survey |
| Fee guide | From £450 | From £1,600 |
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