New build drawings in Havering
New build drawings for a house in Havering start at £1,450. They give the London Borough of Havering the plans, elevations and sections it needs to validate your application. If you are looking to buy a new-build home, this page is not for you. It is for people planning to build one.
Fixed fee from £1,250 drawings + £200 survey (£1,450 total) · all prices
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Buying a new build, or building one?
Searches for new builds in Havering mostly come from buyers browsing developments. We do not sell homes. We draw them: the scaled plans a landowner, self-builder or small developer submits to the council to get a new house or a small group of houses approved.
If that is you, read on. The sections below cover what the council checks, how Havering has treated applications lately and what you pay.
The drawings Havering expects with a new house
A full application for a new dwelling is read from its drawings. The site plan places the house against its boundaries and neighbours. A floor plan for each storey shows room sizes, the stair and the openings. Elevations show every face, and at least one section shows floor-to-ceiling heights and the roof.
We draw the floor plans first and derive the rest from them, so a window never sits in one drawing and not another. Bring a survey, or a rough sketch with the plot address, and we will say what is missing.
The Planning Inspectorate decided 317 householder appeals against Havering between 2021 and 2026, and 44% were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database, release 2609).
Room sizes are checked against a national standard
The nationally described space standard fixes a minimum floor area for each size of home. 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. Larger homes have higher figures in the same table. Check this at sketch stage, because a plan that falls short gives the case officer an easy objection.
The standard is published by the government as Technical housing standards: nationally described space standard.
How quickly and how often Havering says yes
Havering made 985 householder decisions, including prior approvals, in the four quarters from 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2, and granted 86% of them (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2). Householder cases are extensions and alterations, so they describe the council in general, not the outcome for a new house.
Excluding prior approvals, 98% of its householder decisions were made within 8 weeks, the period set by article 34 of the Development Management Procedure Order for an application that is not major development.
Where appeals have gone
The Planning Inspectorate decided 317 householder appeals against Havering between 2021 and 2026, and 44% were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database, release 2609). That is a record of extensions and alterations, not new houses. The practical lesson is the same: a clear, complete drawing set at the first submission is cheaper than an appeal.
Conservation areas, and what the application costs
The national planning data platform lists 11 conservation-area entries on the national register for Havering (our analysis of MHCLG Planning Data Platform datasets, bulk snapshot of 14 August 2026). The register may not match the council's own map exactly, so check Havering's map for your plot before you design anything.
The council's fee for a full application to build fewer than 10 houses is £610 for each dwellinghouse, from 1 April 2026. That is paid to the council. Our drawings are a separate, fixed fee from £1,450, listed on the pricing page.
More from us in Havering
For the wider picture, read our guide to planning permission for a new build house in London and the London new-build drawings service. If your plot already has a house, you may need planning permission in Havering for an extension instead, or floor plans for Havering on their own.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| £1,450 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for new build house feasibility and planning drawings, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.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 |
| 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 |
| 985 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 86% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 98% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 317 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 44% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 11 | 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 |
| 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 |
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