HMO conversion drawings in Rainham, RM13
Rainham is in the London Borough of Havering, and a house-to-HMO conversion there needs plans showing each bedroom's floor area set against the licensing minimum, with any garage that joins the living space drawn into the same layout. DrawingsDirect, MCIAT chartered architectural technologists, draws HMO conversion sets for RM13 from £895.
Fixed fee from £695 drawings + £200 survey (£895 total) · all prices
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Is the garage part of the plan?
If the house has an integral or attached garage, turning it into a habitable room can add a compliant bedroom or a shared kitchen. A garage that becomes living space brings its own planning and Building Regulations questions about parking, insulation, damp and daylight.
If a garage is in your scheme, read our guide to planning permission for a garage conversion, and see our garage conversion drawings service. We draw the garage and the rest of the house as one set, so the HMO layout and the conversion agree.
Minimum room sizes for sleeping accommodation
A licensed HMO needs at least 6.51 square metres in a room used by one person aged over 10 and 10.22 square metres where two people aged over 10 share (Housing Act 2004, Schedule 4, paragraph 1A, inserted by the HMO licensing regulations of 2018). The text is on legislation.gov.uk.
Our plans state the measured area of every sleeping room so these figures can be checked at a glance. Havering may set additional licensing conditions for amenities, so check them against the council's housing pages.
Our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform (bulk snapshot retrieved 14 Aug 2026) finds 11 conservation-area entries for Havering on the national register.
Havering's planning caseload and appeal record
Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2, counts 1,446 planning decisions in Havering across the four quarters from 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2.
Our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (Casework Database 2609, released 1 Oct 2026) finds 781 Havering planning appeals decided between 2021 and 2026, with 32% allowed. These counts cover all types of development, not just HMOs. They say that decisions can be reversed, not that yours will be.
Is your RM13 street in a conservation area?
Our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform (bulk snapshot retrieved 14 Aug 2026) finds 11 conservation-area entries for Havering on the national register. Check Havering Council's map to see whether your RM13 street is in one, because a designation changes what the officer will look for on the front elevation.
For the wider question of what needs consent, see our guide to planning permission for an HMO.
How long a decision takes, and what we charge
For development that is not major, the council has 8 weeks beginning the day after it receives a valid application (Development Management Procedure Order 2015, article 34(2)(b)).
Our fixed fee for HMO conversion drawings starts from £895, and the pricing page lists the rest. The service is described on the HMO conversion drawings page. Use the quote form below with the Rainham address.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 6.51 square metres | HMO Mandatory Conditions of Licences (England) Regs 2018 Sch 4 para 1A: minimum floor area of a room used as sleeping accommodation by one person aged over 10 (source wording: 6.51 square metres) | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| 10.22 square metres | HMO Mandatory Conditions of Licences (England) Regs 2018 Sch 4 para 1A: minimum floor area of a room used as sleeping accommodation by two persons aged over 10 (source wording: 10.22 square metres) | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| 8 weeks | DMPO 2015 art 34(2)(b): decision period for an application that is not major development (source wording: 8 weeks beginning with the day immediately following receipt) | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| 1,446 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 781 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 32% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 11 | 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 |
| £895 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for HMO conversion drawings, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
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