Floor plans in West Ealing, measured on site
Floor planning in Ealing begins on site: we laser-measure your West Ealing home and draw every level to scale, showing room sizes, wall thicknesses and door and window positions. A measured survey with floor plans costs a fixed fee from £275, and the same survey can later carry an extension or loft design.
Fixed fee from £275 · all prices
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A scaled drawing of each floor, taken from the building itself
A floor plan is a dimensioned drawing of each level of your home, measured directly from the property rather than traced from an old plan or an estate agent's rough sketch. Room sizes, wall thicknesses and the position of every door and window come from the site visit, so the drawing is accurate, not approximate.
People in West Ealing ask for them for different reasons. Sellers and landlords use them for estate agency marketing and property listings. Solicitors and mortgage lenders often want a lease plan. Landlords keep one to document a rental layout, and some owners simply want a record of the house before deciding on any building work.
How the measuring visit works
We visit the property with a laser distance meter and record each room, opening and wall. If you think you may build later, tell us when you book: the same visit can record the existing elevations and sections as well as the plans, so nothing needs re-measuring when the design starts.
A design drawn over an old estate agent plan or a previous owner's drawings can turn out not to fit the building once construction begins. Our guide to what a measured building survey records explains the difference between a marketing plan and a survey a builder can work from, and the measured building survey service page sets out the full scope.
In householder appeals from the borough decided in recent years, inspectors allowed 43%, going by our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database.
Fixed fees, from a floor plan to a planning set
A measured survey with floor plans starts at £275. There is no design work, no application and no borough paperwork in that instruction, which is why it costs far less than a full drawing set.
If the plan turns into a project, householder planning drawings start at £745, and they can be drawn on top of the survey you already have. Ealing Council then charges its own statutory fee for a householder application on a single house, which is £548 under the national fee schedule indexed each April. That fee is paid to the council, not to us. Every fee we charge is listed on our price list.
Thinking of extending? How Ealing Council has decided householder applications
Many West Ealing owners order floor plans first and decide on an extension afterwards. These figures cover the whole London Borough of Ealing, not West Ealing alone. Across the latest four published quarters, Ealing Council made 946 householder decisions, counting prior approvals, according to our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics.
Of those decisions, 87% were grants. Leaving prior approvals aside, Ealing Council decided 96% of householder applications inside the statutory eight-week period. These are past results for the borough as a whole and say nothing certain about any single application, but they show that a well-prepared householder application is routine business for the council. Our planning permission page for Ealing covers that stage, and you can read the council's own guidance on Ealing Council's website.
The appeal record for Ealing householder refusals
A refusal from Ealing Council can be appealed to the Planning Inspectorate. In householder appeals from the borough decided in recent years, inspectors allowed 43%, going by our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database. That is a record of past cases, not a forecast for yours: each appeal turns on its own drawings, site and policy reasons.
Booking floor plans for a West Ealing property
DrawingsDirect is a practice of MCIAT chartered architectural technologists producing drawings for London and Essex homes. To book, send the address and what the plan is for through the quote form on this page, and say whether building work is on the horizon so we can record what a later design would need on the same visit.
For floor plans elsewhere in the capital, see our London floor plans 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 |
| £745 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for householder planning drawings, a side return or architectural drawings | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| £548 | Statutory householder planning application fee, single dwellinghouse, from 1 April 2026 | assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
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