Measured building surveys in Woodside Park, N12
A measured building survey in Woodside Park gives you scaled plans of your house as it stands today, ready for an extension, loft or conversion design. DrawingsDirect charges from £200, and the drawings are the base for every application that follows.
Fixed fee from £200 · all prices
Prefer to talk it through?
Why the drawings must match the building
A planning officer compares your proposed drawings with the property, and a building control surveyor does the same on site. When the existing plans are wrong, the proposed ones inherit the error: an extension shown at the wrong depth, a window in the wrong place, a stair that does not fit. A measured survey removes that risk at the start.
It is also the evidence you will lean on if a neighbour questions what you are building. Accurate existing drawings sit alongside your floor plans and make any later conversation about boundaries and party walls shorter.
What a measured survey involves
A surveyor visits, measures every room and opening, records floor-to-ceiling heights and notes the position of the main walls and stairs. Access to the loft and any outbuilding is helpful if your project touches them.
The output is a set of scaled drawings of each floor. If you want to understand each stage first, the measured building survey guide walks through it.
The Planning Inspectorate has decided 494 householder appeals against Barnet decisions since 2021, and 51% of them were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database).
Barnet by the numbers
Woodside Park sits in the London Borough of Barnet. The Planning Inspectorate has decided 494 householder appeals against Barnet decisions since 2021, and 51% of them were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database).
An appeal is a last step rather than a plan, but the figure shows how often a refusal is tested on the drawings and the argument behind them.
In the four quarters to 2026 Q2, 17% of Barnet's householder decisions were prior approvals (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2), and 95% of the householder decisions that were not prior approvals were made within eight weeks (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Barnet decided 1,619 certificates of lawful development over the eight quarters to 2026 Q2 (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1). A certificate confirms that work is lawful without a planning application, and the drawings submitted with one need the same accuracy. See the lawful development certificate entry for how it works.
For Barnet the national registers list 16 conservation-area entries and 15 article 4 direction entries, and the second list may be incomplete (our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area and article-4-direction datasets). Check your Woodside Park address against both, starting with Barnet's conservation area map, before you start. The Barnet planning permission page covers the application side.
Price and booking
Measured survey and floor plans start from £200, and the pricing page lists the other fixed fees. Use the form here to send your address and project.
For the national rules on what needs permission, see the government's planning permission guidance.
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 survey or floor plans | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
| 494 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 51% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 17% | 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 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 1,619 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS1 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |