Measured building surveys in West Wickham
A measured building survey in West Wickham records your house as it stands and turns it into scaled existing plans. Our starting fixed fee for a laser-measured survey with existing plans is £200 with no VAT to add, from the published price list.
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What the survey is for
A measured survey is a record of dimensions: rooms, walls, openings and levels, drawn up to scale. It is the base layer for everything that follows when you want to extend, convert or alter a house in BR4. It is not a condition report, so it will not tell you about damp, cracks or the state of the roof.
If you searched for a measured building surveyor around Wickham, this is the service: the existing building, measured and drawn, so that proposals can be drawn on top of it.
Why accurate existing plans matter to the council
National planning practice guidance says plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale, and that plans must show the direction of north. A proposal sketched over guessed dimensions has no sound footing.
A location plan is a separate drawing again. The same guidance says it should typically be at a scale of 1:1250. If you need that too, our location and block plans page explains what it shows, and the survey does not replace it.
Bromley has 73 live conservation areas on the government's planning data platform.
What Bromley decided last year
West Wickham sits in the London Borough of Bromley, so Bromley's householder figures are the ones that apply to a loft, rear extension or side extension here. In the year to the second quarter of 2026 the council made 1,609 householder decisions, and 79% of them were granted.
On speed, 90% of householder decisions, leaving out prior approvals, were made within 8 weeks. Those are borough-wide figures from MHCLG planning application statistics, not a forecast for any one house.
When a refusal goes to appeal
Planning Inspectorate records show 563 householder appeals decided for Bromley between 2021 and 2026, and 37% of them were allowed. That is a reminder that a refusal is not always the last word, and that the drawings submitted are the evidence either side argues from.
Existing plans that match the building on site remove one avoidable argument before any design question is reached.
Conservation areas and lawful development
Bromley has 73 live conservation areas on the government's planning data platform. Whether your own street is inside one is something to check before you commission design work, because it can change what is needed.
Bromley also decided 1,030 certificates of lawful development across the eight quarters to the second quarter of 2026. A certificate application relies on drawings of the house too, so a measured survey is a sensible start for that route as well. Our lawful development certificate drawings page covers it.
Price and next steps
The starting fixed fee for a laser-measured building survey with existing plans is £200 with no VAT to add. The full list is on our pricing page, and the measured building survey service page sets out what the service covers.
If you only need floor layouts rather than elevations and sections, see our floor plans service. Use the enquiry form on this page to tell us the address and what you plan to build.
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 laser-measured building survey with existing plans, with no VAT to add, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
| identified scale | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 023: plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale and plans must show the direction of north (source wording: "must be drawn to an identified scale") | www.gov.uk |
| 1:1250 | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 024: a location plan should typically be at a scale of 1:1250 or 1:2500 (source wording: "The scale should typically be 1:1250 or 1:2500") | www.gov.uk |
| 1,609 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 79% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 90% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 563 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 37% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 73 | 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 |
| 1,030 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |