New build in Earlsfield: planning and drawings
A new build in Earlsfield needs full planning permission from Wandsworth Council, then building regulations approval before work starts. DrawingsDirect draws both sets from £1,450. In the latest four quarters Wandsworth decided 977 householder applications and granted 92% of them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics), a record of how it treats smaller domestic proposals.
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Wandsworth is the council that decides
Earlsfield sits in the London Borough of Wandsworth, so the borough planning team receives and decides every application here. For an application that is not major development, article 34 of the Development Management Procedure Order gives the council 8 weeks beginning with the day after it receives the application, and one house on an infill plot normally falls in that group.
Wandsworth's speed on smaller cases is a useful guide to the real wait. Our analysis of the MHCLG statistics shows 91% of its householder decisions, leaving out prior approvals, were made within 8 weeks across the four quarters to 2026 Q2. A new house is a bigger case than an extension, so read that as context for the wait, not a promise.
What Wandsworth's decision record shows
Across the four quarters from 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2 Wandsworth made 977 householder decisions, including prior approvals, and granted 92% of them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Appeals give the other side. The Planning Inspectorate decided 204 householder appeals against Wandsworth between 2021 and 2026, and 36% were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database, release 2609). Both figures describe past householder cases. Neither forecasts what happens to a new house on your plot.
Across the four quarters from 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2 Wandsworth made 977 householder decisions, including prior approvals, and granted 92% of them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Check whether your street is in a conservation area
The national register of conservation areas holds 47 entries for Wandsworth (our analysis of the Planning Data Platform conservation-area dataset, snapshot of 19 October 2026).
A register count cannot tell you about one address, so open the council's own conservation area map and search your postcode before you spend on design. Our conservation area glossary entry explains what the designation changes about an application.
Will the house meet the space standard?
Test the layout against the nationally described space standard before anything else. A one-bedroom, one-person dwelling needs at least 39 m2 of gross internal area, or 37 m2 with a shower room instead of a bathroom. Small infill plots are where a layout that looks generous on paper can quietly fall short.
We draw feasibility sketches with every room dimensioned, so you learn whether the plot can carry the house you want before paying a planning fee.
What an Earlsfield new build costs to apply for
The national planning fee, paid to Wandsworth, is £610 for each dwellinghouse on a full application for fewer than 10 houses, as indexed from 1 April 2026. Our own drawings for a new-build home start at £1,450, on a fixed fee.
More on how a new house moves through the system is in our new-build planning permission guide. The wider London new-build drawings service and the pricing page cover scope, and our planning permission page for Wandsworth covers the borough in general.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 8 weeks | DMPO 2015 art 34(2)(b): decision period for an application that is not major development (source wording: "8 weeks beginning with the day immediately following that on which the application is received") | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| 91% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 977 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 92% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 204 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 36% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 47 | 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 |
| 37 | Technical housing standards, nationally described space standard (DCLG, March 2015), Table 1: a one-bedroom one-person dwelling needs at least 39 m2 gross internal area, or 37 m2 with a shower room instead of a bathroom (source wording: 39 (37)) | assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
| £610 | Fees for planning applications in England from 1 April 2026 (MHCLG, SI 2012/2920 as annually indexed), category 1(3)(a): full application for the erection of fewer than 10 dwellinghouses, per dwellinghouse (source wording: "£610 for each dwellinghouse") | assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
| £1,450 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for new build house feasibility and planning drawings, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |