Floor plans in Acton, W3
Floor planning in Acton means measuring your home and drawing every room to scale, so you can plan an extension, a conversion or a sale with confidence. DrawingsDirect's fixed fee for measured survey and floor plans starts from £275, in Acton and across the rest of Ealing.
Fixed fee from £275 · all prices
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What are floor plans actually used for?
People commission floor plans for a few common reasons. Homeowners planning to extend need an accurate drawing of the house as it is before anyone can design the change. Buyers and sellers want a clear plan of the layout. Landlords and owners reorganising rooms need a base to work from.
In each case the floor plan is the document everything else is built from, which is why it begins with a measured survey rather than an estimate from an old estate-agent sketch. Our measured building survey service is the fieldwork behind the drawing.
Existing plans first, proposed plans second
Existing plans show the building as it is. Proposed plans show what you want to change. A planning or building regulations submission needs both, drawn on the same base so the council can see exactly what is new.
If you only want the existing layout, that is a perfectly good order for a floor plan. If you intend to build, the next step is usually a planning drawing set, and our Ealing planning permission page shows how we handle applications in the borough.
In the four quarters to 2026 Q2 Ealing made 946 householder decisions, and 55% of them were prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Ealing planning at a glance
Acton sits within the London Borough of Ealing. In the four quarters to 2026 Q2 Ealing made 946 householder decisions, and 55% of them were prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Among the householder decisions that were not prior approvals, 96% were made within eight weeks (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Of 205 householder planning appeals decided against Ealing decisions since 2021, 43% were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database).
Over the eight quarters to 2026 Q2 the council decided 1,473 certificates of lawful development (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1). Read what these are in our lawful development certificate entry.
For Ealing the national register lists 31 conservation-area entries (our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area dataset). The government's dataset page gives a first look, and Ealing Council's conservation area map settles whether your Acton road falls inside one.
Cost, and what to send us
For an Acton home, measuring and drawing the plans costs from £275, and we also cover Greenford and the rest of Ealing. If the plans lead on to an extension, the pricing page shows what a full drawing set costs. To start, send the address and a line on what you want the plans for through the form on this page.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| £275 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for floor plans measured on site | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
| 946 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 55% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 96% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 43% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 205 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 31 | 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 |
| 1,473 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |