New homes in Raynes Park: the drawings behind them
Our service in Raynes Park is the drawings behind a new home, not the sale of one. For an owner building a house, we prepare the planning set for Merton Council from £1,450. Merton decided 1,073 planning applications in the latest four quarters, and the national planning data platform holds 28 conservation-area entries for the borough on its national register.
Fixed fee from £1,250 drawings + £200 survey (£1,450 total) · all prices
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Choosing the house before the drawings
Families who ask how to choose a house type usually mean the size, number of floors and layout. Those are design decisions made on a plot: the footprint the site and the council's policies allow, the height of neighbours, the garden left over. We help settle that at the sketch stage, then draw it up as the application set. The package is described on our new build drawings page, and a floor plans service is available if you only need layouts.
What Merton decides
Merton made 1,073 planning decisions in the four quarters to 2026 Q2 (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2). It covers every type of scheme, so it measures workload, not your chances.
Of 229 planning appeals decided since 2021, 28% were allowed (our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database). Read the planning appeal glossary entry for how an appeal runs.
Merton made 1,073 planning decisions in the four quarters to 2026 Q2 (our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2).
Conservation areas to check
The 28 national-register entries (our analysis of the MHCLG Planning Data Platform conservation-area dataset) are a count for the whole of Merton, not SW20 alone, so check Merton Council's own map for your street. Inside a conservation area, a design and access statement is required for development of one or more dwellings (guidance). See our planning permission page and the conservation area glossary entry.
Deadlines and charges
Decision periods are 8 weeks for an application that is not major development and 13 weeks for major development (article 34). Merton's fee is £610 per dwellinghouse for a full application for fewer than ten dwellinghouses. Our drawing fee starts at £1,450, listed on the pricing page.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 1,073 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 229 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 28% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 28 | 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 |
| £610 | Statutory fee from 1 April 2026, SI 2012/2920 Sch 1 Pt 2 category 1(3)(a): full application for the erection of fewer than 10 dwellinghouses, per dwellinghouse | assets.publishing.service.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 receipt) | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| 13 weeks | DMPO 2015 art 34(2)(a): decision period for major development (source wording: 13 weeks beginning with the day immediately following receipt) | www.legislation.gov.uk |
| one or more dwellings | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 030 (ID 14-030-20140306): design and access statement required in a conservation area or World Heritage Site for development of one or more dwellings | www.gov.uk |
| £1,450 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for new build drawings, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |