Measured building surveys in Kennington
A measured building survey in Kennington costs from £200 and records your home's dimensions as laser-measured plans. Kennington is in Lambeth, where 94% of householder decisions, prior approvals excluded, were made within eight weeks in the four quarters to June 2026. Check for a conservation area before you design.
Fixed fee from £200 · all prices
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Why Kennington projects begin with a survey
A few centimetres of error in a wall flows through every drawing. Measuring first means the extension, loft or conversion drawings reflect the building that exists.
Read the survey service page for the visit, or the floor plans service if you only need as-existing layouts.
Conservation areas: the Lambeth count
Lambeth shows 65 conservation-area entries on the national register (our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform datasets, bulk snapshot retrieved 14 August 2026). The count is for the whole borough, so it does not tell you about your road. It does tell you that checking Lambeth's conservation area map, or asking the council, is worth doing before you design.
If the answer is yes, a heritage-sensitive design usually needs more detail on the drawings, which a measured base supports.
Lambeth shows 65 conservation-area entries on the national register (our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform datasets, bulk snapshot retrieved 14 August 2026).
How fast Lambeth decides
Lambeth decided 94% of householder applications within eight weeks, excluding prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2, released 24 September 2026). It made 595 householder decisions in the four quarters to June 2026, prior approvals included.
More on the borough is on our Lambeth survey page, and nearby Brixton has its own page at measured building surveys in Brixton.
What the drawings must show
Government planning guidance says plans need an identified scale and a north point, and suggests 1:1250 or 1:2500 for location plans. Survey-based plans make that straightforward.
The fixed survey fee is from £200. Later stages are on our pricing page.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 595 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 94% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 65 | 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 |
| 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 |