New build drawings for a plot in Monken Hadley
New build drawings for a Monken Hadley plot start at £1,450 with no VAT to add, a fixed fee for feasibility and planning drawings of a new house. Monken Hadley applications go to Barnet, so this page sets out Barnet's published figures beside the fee. Daylight and sunlight assessments are a separate specialist report and are not on our service list.
Fixed fee from £1,250 drawings + £200 survey (£1,450 total) · all prices
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What the £1,450 covers, and what it does not
Our published starting fee for new build house feasibility and planning drawings is £1,450 with no VAT to add. It is a starting price from the public price list at drawingsdirect.co.uk/pricing, not a quote for your plot.
The council's application fee is a separate charge. Keep it as its own line in your budget.
The council fee for one new house
For a full application to erect dwellinghouses, the national fee table lists £610 for each dwellinghouse. That is the figure in the national planning fee schedule as indexed from April 2026, and it is paid to the council, not to us.
Plan the budget in two lines: the drawing fee and the council fee. Neither depends on the other.
Barnet has 16 live conservation areas on the national planning data platform.
Barnet's decision record, and why it is only a guide for a new house
Barnet's householder figures are the clearest public measure of how the borough handles residential applications. In the latest four quarters of published statistics Barnet made 1,361 householder decisions and granted 80% of them. Across every type of application it made 2,417 decisions.
A new house is not a householder application, and the published tables do not break out new-build decisions for Barnet here. So read 80% as the pattern for extensions and alterations in the borough, not as a forecast for a new dwelling. We do not promise an outcome on any application.
On speed, 95% of Barnet's householder decisions, excluding prior approvals, were made within 8 weeks. The legal decision period for an application that is not major development is 8 weeks from the day after it is received. Whether a given new house application falls in that group depends on its size.
Appeals in Barnet
The Planning Inspectorate's casework database shows 494 householder appeals decided for Barnet in recent years, with 51% allowed. An appeal is what follows a refusal, so that figure says that refusals in the borough are sometimes overturned. It does not say your scheme would be.
Treat it as context, not a prediction.
Designations across Barnet that can affect a plot
Barnet has 16 live conservation areas on the national planning data platform. Whether your Monken Hadley plot sits inside one, or beside one, is a question for the site itself, and it can change what a new house must look like and what the application must include.
Before drawings begin, check the plot against the borough's conservation-area and Article 4 maps. A village name alone does not tell you whether a designation applies.
Minimum floor areas that shape the layout
The nationally described space standard sets minimum gross internal floor areas for new homes. At the small end, a one-bedroom, one-person dwelling with a shower room instead of a bathroom needs at least 37 m2.
Larger homes need more, and the standard also covers bedrooms and storage. Drawing a layout against these minimums at the start avoids redrawing a plan that cannot meet them.
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, with no VAT to add, 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 |
| 1,361 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 80% | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2,417 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.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 |