Floor planning in Greenwich: measured survey and scaled plans
DrawingsDirect measures your Greenwich home on site and draws a scaled floor plan of every level, for a fixed fee from £275 for the measured survey and floor plans. You can use the plans to sell, let or record a layout, or as the existing drawings for a planning application to the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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A floor plan records each level of the house as it stands
A floor plan is a scaled, dimensioned drawing of one storey: room sizes, wall thicknesses, and where every door, window and staircase sits. It is drawn from measurements taken in the property, not traced from an old agent's sketch or a previous owner's drawings, which often leave out later alterations.
Greenwich owners ask for floor plans for a few reasons. Some need them for a sale or letting listing. Others need a lease plan for a solicitor or lender, or a landlord's record of a rental layout. Many want an accurate existing layout before deciding what to build. The drawing is the same in each case; only the use changes.
We measure on site, then draw to scale
The work starts with a visit to the property. We take measurements with a laser distance meter, room by room and level by level, and record openings, ceiling heights and the positions of fixed items such as chimney breasts and stairs.
Back at the desk, those measurements become scaled plans. Because the survey records the building as it is, it can be reused later: if you decide to extend or convert the loft, the existing plans are already drawn and the house does not need measuring again. See measured building surveys for what a fuller survey adds, such as elevations and sections.
Over the latest four published quarters, the Royal Borough of Greenwich made 624 householder decisions and refused 143 of them, a grant rate of 77%.
What the £275 fixed fee covers
Our published price for a measured survey and floor plans starts at £275, and that figure has no VAT to add. The fee is fixed when you instruct us, so it does not grow with the hours spent drawing.
The fee shown is a starting price: a larger house, extra storeys or added elevations are quoted to suit. The full list is on our pricing page, and the wider service is described on floor plans in London. DrawingsDirect is a practice of chartered architectural technologists (MCIAT).
Building without a full application? Greenwich still asks for plans
Plenty of extensions and loft conversions in Greenwich go ahead under permitted development, and the existing floor plans are usually the first drawing those routes need. A lawful development certificate confirms a project is permitted development; the Royal Borough of Greenwich decided 859 of them over the eight quarters covered, according to our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics.
Larger rear extensions go through prior approval instead, where neighbours are notified before the council decides. Greenwich determined 294 larger home extension prior approvals over the same eight quarters and granted 163 of them. Those counts come from the government's live planning application tables.
Drawings for planning permission in Greenwich: the borough's record
When a project needs full householder planning permission, your floor plans become the existing drawings in the application, alongside the proposed plans. Over the latest four published quarters, the Royal Borough of Greenwich made 624 householder decisions and refused 143 of them, a grant rate of 77%. The council decided 95% of householder applications, excluding prior approvals, within eight weeks.
Refused schemes can be appealed to the Planning Inspectorate. The Inspectorate's casework database shows 343 householder appeals from Greenwich decided as allowed or dismissed, of which 160 were allowed. That is a record of past cases, not a guide to how any one appeal will go. If you are heading for an application, our planning drawings for Greenwich page sets out the full drawing set.
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 |
| 624 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 143 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 77% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 95% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 294 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 163 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 859 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 343 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 160 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
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