Floor planning in West Hampstead
For floor planning in West Hampstead, we laser-measure your home and draw accurate floor plans of every level, for a fixed fee from £275. The plans are drawn by MCIAT chartered architectural technologists, so they can serve as the existing drawings for a later Camden application as well as for your own use.
Fixed fee from £275 · all prices
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What you receive: a scaled plan of each floor as it stands
A floor plan shows each storey of your home from above: the walls, door and window openings, stairs, chimney breasts and the rooms they enclose, drawn to scale from measurements taken on site. It records the building as it is today, not as a sales brochure sketch suggests.
In an older house or a converted flat, walls rarely meet at true right angles and later alterations can hide the original layout. A measured plan settles questions a builder, a lender, a freeholder or a planning officer will ask, and gives any future design a reliable starting point.
Why the plans start with a laser survey of the property
We measure the property with a laser and build the existing layout from those readings, so each room on paper matches the room on site. Accuracy at this stage matters more than anything that follows: proposed drawings are drawn on top of the existing ones, and an error in the survey carries through to every later drawing.
If you already hold measured drawings, we can work from them, though for an application we usually re-survey so the existing and proposed sets agree exactly.
Camden Council issued 394 householder decisions, prior approvals included, over the latest four quarters, a total taken from our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics.
Which Camden route your floor plans could support
West Hampstead sits within the London Borough of Camden, so any application for work on your home goes to Camden Council. Existing floor plans are part of almost every householder submission, whichever route the work takes.
Where a project relies on permitted development, a lawful development certificate confirms it in writing, and existing and proposed floor plans are central to that application. Camden Council decided 287 certificates of lawful development over two years, according to our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics.
Prior approvals are common in the borough too. They made up 46% of Camden Council's householder decisions over the latest four quarters in our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, which is a reminder that the route is a decision to take before the proposed drawings are started.
How long Camden takes to decide, and what the record shows
Camden Council issued 394 householder decisions, prior approvals included, over the latest four quarters, a total taken from our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics. For a non-major application the council has an 8-week period to decide, counted from the day after it receives the application, and that period can be extended by written agreement under article 34 of the Development Management Procedure Order.
In practice, 61% of Camden Council's householder decisions, excluding prior approvals, were made inside that 8-week period over those four quarters, on our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics. Allow for the possibility that a decision takes longer than the statutory period.
If an application is refused, the Planning Inspectorate decides any appeal. In our analysis of its Casework Database, the Inspectorate allowed 32% of Camden householder appeals across the decisions recorded from the start of the decade to this year. That is a record of past cases, not a guide to how any one appeal will go.
Before you book: price, conservation areas and next steps
Measured survey and floor plan work is a fixed fee from £275, quoted before we visit; the full price list shows every other drawing service.
If your street may fall within a conservation area, check Camden Council's own conservation area map before any alterations are designed. A floor plan is the same either way, but the planning route for the work that follows can change.
To compare this with the service across the capital, see floor plans in London, or ask for a quote using 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 |
| 394 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 61% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 46% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 287 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 32% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 8-week | DMPO 2015 art 34(2)(b): 8 weeks from day after receipt for non-major applications, extendable by written agreement (source wording: 8 weeks) | www.legislation.gov.uk |