Floor planning in Brent, from Willesden to Wembley
Willesden, Wembley and every other Brent address come under one council, and one set of rules for what a planning application must contain. DrawingsDirect measures your home and draws floor plans to scale for a fixed fee from £275, ready for a sale, a letting or a Brent application.
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Is floor planning in Willesden different from Wembley?
Not for the drawing. A floor plan of a terraced house in Willesden and one of a semi in Wembley are both scaled sheets of each storey, taken from a visit to the property. The council that reads them is the same, Brent Council, so one validation list and one planning record apply to both.
What differs is the project. Some owners want plans to sell, some to let, some as the existing layout before an extension. Our published starting fixed fee for scaled floor plans for sale, letting or lease is £275, and the pricing page covers larger houses.
Where is the Brent validation checklist?
People search for it because an application is checked against it before anyone judges the design. It should sit with Brent Council's planning application pages, and it lists what each type of project must include. Read the version for your project, as it is the council's and it changes.
Behind it sits a national rule that floor plans cannot skip: plans must be drawn to an identified scale and show north. Our floor plans state the scale on every sheet. For the full set a house application uses, see our planning drawings service.
Inspectors decided 289 householder appeals in Brent between 2021 and 2026 and allowed 42%, by our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 October 2026).
What Brent's record looks like
Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2, shows Brent decided 879 householder cases, prior approvals included, over the four quarters to 2026 Q2. It granted 87%.
Our analysis of table PS1 shows the other route: 866 certificates of lawful development decided over the eight quarters from 2024 Q3 to 2026 Q2. Both are history, not a forecast for your house, but together they show that householder work in Brent is common and mostly granted.
Brent appeals and conservation areas
Inspectors decided 289 householder appeals in Brent between 2021 and 2026 and allowed 42%, by our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 October 2026). Our planning appeal guide sets out the process.
For conservation areas, our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area dataset (snapshot retrieved 14 August 2026) counts 23 live Brent entries on the national register. Brent Council's own conservation area map shows where they lie, so check your street on it. What a conservation area means for a house is explained in our glossary.
Next step
Send the address and what the plans are for. If you want elevations and sections as well, a measured building survey records them, and our floor plans service describes how the work runs. The national making an application guidance is the reference for the drawings a council expects.
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 scaled floor plans for sale, letting or lease, 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 |
| 879 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 87% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 866 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 289 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 42% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 23 | 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 |
Questions people ask
Do you cover Wembley and Willesden?
Does Brent Council have a validation checklist?
Photographs: David Howard (CC BY-SA 2.0).
