Measured building surveys in Greenwich
DrawingsDirect carries out measured building surveys in Greenwich from £200, returning scaled plans of your home as it stands today. The Royal Borough of Greenwich decided 624 householder applications in the year to June 2026, prior approvals included, so if yours is next, start it from accurate plans of the house.
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What a Greenwich survey gives you
A measured building survey records the house as it is built: wall positions, room sizes, openings and floor levels, measured on site and drawn to scale. Those plans are the base for every later drawing, from a loft design to a Building Regulations set.
Greenwich surveys are a fixed fee from £200. The measured building survey service page explains what is recorded, and our pricing shows the packages that build on the survey.
How busy is the Greenwich planning desk?
In the year to June 2026 the Royal Borough of Greenwich decided 624 householder applications, counting prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
For householder decisions that were not prior approvals, 95% were made within eight weeks over the same four quarters (our analysis of the same table). These are borough-wide figures, not a forecast for your own application.
In the year to June 2026 the Royal Borough of Greenwich decided 624 householder applications, counting prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Conservation areas change what you may build
Greenwich's entry on the national planning data platform lists 24 conservation-area entries (our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area datasets, retrieved 19 October 2026), a register figure rather than the council's own total. Check your road on the Royal Borough's conservation area map before you design.
If you are in Eltham or Well Hall, the Eltham survey page covers the south-east of the borough.
Scale and north on every plan
GOV.UK planning practice guidance on making an application says plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale and must show the direction of north. It adds that a location plan should typically be 1:1250 or 1:2500.
Measuring first means the planning drawings and the location and block plans are all taken from one record of the house.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 24 | Our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area and article-4-direction datasets (bulk snapshot retrieved 19 Oct 2026) | www.planning.data.gov.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 |
| £200 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for a measured building survey, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
Questions people ask
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