Floor planning and architectural drawings in Uxbridge, UB8
Floor planning for an Uxbridge home means drawing the existing and proposed floor plans that a Hillingdon planning application is judged on. DrawingsDirect, MCIAT chartered architectural technologists, draws them within a full set of plans, elevations and sections from £745, a fixed fee.
Fixed fee from £545 drawings + £200 survey (£745 total) · all prices
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Floor planning is the first sheet of the set, not all of it
A floor plan shows the layout of each storey. Hillingdon's case officer needs two of them for every level that changes: one showing the house as it stands, one showing what you propose. Alongside them go elevations, which show the outside, and a section, which cuts through the building to show heights. National planning practice guidance says plans must be drawn to an identified scale and show the direction of north, and we draw every sheet that way.
If layouts are all you need, for a sales plan or a first design, look at floor plans in Hillingdon or the general floor plans service. For an application, the matching set is what counts, and our architectural drawings service covers it. Where the existing house has never been properly drawn, a measured building survey gives the plans an accurate base.
How quickly Hillingdon decides householder applications
Uxbridge is in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Over the four quarters 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2 Hillingdon decided 1,147 householder applications, including prior approvals, and granted 90% of them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2). Excluding prior approvals, 94% of its householder decisions were made within 8 weeks.
Across all types of application the same council made 1,633 decisions in those four quarters, so householder work is most of what it handles. A complete, consistent set is what keeps your case simple for the officer; the house extension drawings page covers the extension version of that set.
Our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform datasets (bulk snapshot retrieved 14 Aug 2026) counts 42 live conservation-area entries on the national register for Hillingdon.
What the appeal record says about Hillingdon householder cases
Some refusals go to appeal. Our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026, Casework Database 2609) counts 415 householder appeals decided for Hillingdon, allowed or dismissed, for decisions 2021 to 2026, and finds 43% of them were allowed.
That is a record of what the Inspectorate decided, not a forecast of your own case. It does suggest that a refusal is not always the last word, but the better first step is a set of drawings that answers the officer's likely concerns before they are raised.
Conservation areas around UB8
Our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform datasets (bulk snapshot retrieved 14 Aug 2026) counts 42 live conservation-area entries on the national register for Hillingdon. The register may be incomplete, so use the council's own conservation area map for the definitive answer for your UB8 address.
A designation can remove permitted development rights or add heritage questions, and it changes what the drawings need to show. Our guide to Article 4 directions explains how to find out whether one applies.
What we charge, and what the council charges
Our fixed fee for an existing and proposed set of architectural drawings starts at £745, listed on the pricing page. Hillingdon's fee is separate: from 1 April 2026 a householder application to enlarge, improve or alter a single dwellinghouse costs £548.
Our team are chartered architectural technologists (MCIAT), and because the Architects Act 1997 reserves a professional title to registered individuals, we describe ourselves only by our own. Should Hillingdon request amendments, the redrawn sheets cost you nothing. The planning guidance is published on GOV.UK.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| £745 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for an existing and proposed set of architectural drawings, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
| identified scale | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 023: plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale and plans must show the direction of north (source wording: "must be drawn to an identified scale") | www.gov.uk |
| Architects Act 1997 | Architects Act 1997 s20(1): a person may not practise or carry on business under a name, style or title containing the word "architect" unless registered (source wording: "A person shall not practise or carry on business under any name, style or title containing the word") | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| 1,147 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 90% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 94% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 415 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 43% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 42 | Our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area and article-4-direction datasets (bulk snapshot retrieved 14 Aug 2026) | www.planning.data.gov.uk |
| 1,633 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| £548 | Fees for planning applications in England from 1 April 2026 (MHCLG, SI 2012/2920 as annually indexed), category 6(1): householder application for the enlargement, improvement or alteration of a single dwellinghouse (source wording: £548) | assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
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Photographs: Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0).
