Planning drawings in Barnsbury, N1
Planning drawings for a Barnsbury home start at £745 with no VAT to add, fixed, covering the survey, the drawings, a design statement and the submission. Your application goes to Islington, so this page sets out what that council's own figures show and what the drawings themselves have to contain.
Fixed fee from £545 drawings + £200 survey (£745 total) · all prices
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What £745 buys for a Barnsbury householder application
Our published starting fee for householder planning drawings is £745, with no VAT to add. The same price list item covers the survey, the drawings, the design statement and the submission, so those four jobs are not billed separately.
That is a starting figure from the price list on our pricing page.
How Islington has handled householder applications lately
In the four quarters from 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2, Islington made 337 householder decisions, out of 1,426 planning decisions of every kind. So householder cases were a minority of the council's workload, and a large part of the rest was other types of application.
Of those 337 householder decisions, 93% were granted. That is a count of what the council decided, across every householder case in the period. It says nothing about how any single Barnsbury application will turn out, because each one depends on its own drawings and its own site.
The Planning Data Platform lists 41 live conservation areas for Islington.
Timing: the legal period and Islington's record against it
An application that is not major development carries a decision period of 8 weeks beginning with the day after the council receives it. That comes from article 34(2)(b) of the Development Management Procedure Order 2015.
Measured against that period, 97% of Islington's householder decisions were made within 8 weeks over the same four quarters. This excludes prior approvals, which follow their own rules. Treat the figure as a record of the past year, not a promise of how long your case will take.
Appeals: what the Planning Inspectorate's record shows for Islington
If a householder application is refused, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. Its casework database shows 180 householder appeals in Islington decided, allowed or dismissed, for decisions between 2021 and 2026.
Of those, 25% were allowed. For a homeowner this is context rather than a plan: the stronger route is usually a set of drawings that explains the proposal clearly in the first place.
Conservation areas: check before you design
The Planning Data Platform lists 41 live conservation areas for Islington. That number covers the whole borough, so it does not tell you whether your own street is inside one.
Before you commit to a design, look up your exact address on the council's map and on the Planning Data Platform. Conservation area status can change what you are allowed to do, and it is better to learn that at the start than after drawings are drawn.
What the drawings must show
National planning practice guidance says plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale, and that plans must show the direction of north.
The same guidance says a location plan should typically be at a scale of 1:1250 or another standard scale it names. The location plan is what tells the council exactly which land the application covers, so it needs to be right before anything else is.
Sources
Every figure on this page, where it comes from and a link to the original.
| Figure | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| £745 | DrawingsDirect starting fixed fee for householder planning drawings (survey, drawings, design statement, submission), with no VAT to add, from the published price list | drawingsdirect.co.uk |
| 337 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 1,426 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 93% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 97% | 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 |
| 180 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 25% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 41 | 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 |
| identified scale | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 023: plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale and plans must show the direction of north (source wording: "must be drawn to an identified scale") | www.gov.uk |
| 1:1250 | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 024: a location plan should typically be at a scale of 1:1250 or 1:2500 (source wording: "The scale should typically be 1:1250 or 1:2500") | www.gov.uk |