Measured building surveys in North Harrow
DrawingsDirect carries out measured building surveys in North Harrow and across the borough from £200, giving you accurate plans of the house as built. Harrow Council decided 917 householder applications in the year to June 2026, prior approvals included, and an application of that kind starts from existing plans like these.
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North Harrow, Pinner and Rayners Lane
People searching for this service name North Harrow, Pinner, Rayners Lane and Harrow on the Hill. We survey in all of them: measured walls, rooms, openings and levels, drawn to scale.
A Harrow survey costs from £200. See the measured building survey page for the service and our pricing for the drawings that follow.
How Harrow Council handles householder cases
The council's householder decisions numbered 917 in the year to June 2026, including prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Leave prior approvals out and 95% of householder decisions came within eight weeks over those four quarters (our analysis of the same table).
The council's householder decisions numbered 917 in the year to June 2026, including prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Conservation areas in the borough
Live conservation-area entries for Harrow number 31 on the national planning data register (our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area datasets, retrieved 19 October 2026). The figure covers the whole council, so find your own street on Harrow's conservation area map before design work.
Pinner has its own page: measured surveys in Pinner HA5. For Harrow Weald, see the Harrow Weald survey page.
Scale, north and location plans
GOV.UK planning practice guidance on making an application says plans must be drawn to an identified scale and show the direction of north. Its advice for a location plan is a scale of 1:1250 or 1:2500 in the typical case.
A survey lets the planning drawings and the location and block plans share one measured source.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 917 | 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 |
| 31 | 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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Photographs: David Howard (CC BY-SA 2.0).
