Measured building surveys in Belgravia SW1X
Belgravia houses and flats go to Westminster City Council for planning, and the drawings it receives must be to an identified scale and show north. A measured building survey supplies the exact dimensions those drawings start from. DrawingsDirect's fixed fee for a survey with floor plans starts from £200.
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Why accuracy matters more in a tight central plot
In a terrace with party walls on both sides, a few centimetres of error can decide whether a proposed room fits. The survey fixes the true wall positions, ceiling heights, window openings and floor levels, and every drawing after it inherits that accuracy.
For a flat, the survey records the layout you own and the structure around it. Our guide to what a measured building survey involves shows what we capture and how it becomes a set of plans.
What Westminster needs the drawings to show
Government guidance requires any plans or drawings to be drawn to an identified scale, with north shown on plans. A location plan should typically be at 1:1250 or 1:2500, which our location and block plans service covers.
Then come the applications themselves. Our planning drawings turn the survey into proposed plans, elevations and sections.
Its householder caseload over the four quarters to 2026 Q2 came to 366 decisions, prior approvals among them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Westminster's figures behind a Belgravia application
Belgravia is in the City of Westminster. Its householder caseload over the four quarters to 2026 Q2 came to 366 decisions, prior approvals among them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
For householder cases other than prior approvals, the 8-week mark was met 66% of the time (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2). About a third took longer, so allow for that in your timetable.
On the national planning data register Westminster shows 56 conservation-area entries (our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area and article-4-direction datasets), and a listed building needs separate consent. Westminster City Council's own conservation area map confirms whether your Belgravia address is covered. The guides to conservation area extension rules and listed building consent explain the extra controls.
Fee and enquiry
A Belgravia survey with floor plans is priced from £200. See the pricing page for what changes the quote, and send the address through the form.
For a closer look at the borough, our Kensington and Chelsea survey page is the neighbouring area. The primary guidance is the government's making an application page.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| £200 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for a measured building survey, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
| identified scale | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 023 (ID 14-023-20140306): any plans or drawings must be drawn to an identified scale and plans must show the direction of north | www.gov.uk |
| 1:1250 | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 024 (ID 14-024-20140306): location plan scale should typically be 1:1250 or 1:2500 | www.gov.uk |
| 366 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 66% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 56 | 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 |