Planning permission in Barnes
Householder planning drawings for a Barnes home start at £745 with no VAT to add at DrawingsDirect, covering the survey, the drawings, the design statement and the submission. The council's own fee is £548 on top, and Richmond decided 99% of its householder applications within eight weeks.
Fixed fee from £545 drawings + £200 survey (£745 total) · all prices
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What the £745 covers
The published fixed fee covers four things: the survey, the drawings, a design statement and the submission. The council fee of £548 for a householder application is paid separately to Richmond, so you can see each cost on its own.
Do you need a design and access statement?
Planning guidance requires a Design and Access Statement for major development, some development in conservation areas and World Heritage Sites, and listed building consent applications. Richmond has 85 live conservation-area entries in the national planning data, so in Barnes it is worth confirming early whether your street needs one.
Richmond has 383 householder appeals decided in the Planning Inspectorate casework database, with 43% allowed.
How fast Richmond decides
In the latest four quarters Richmond decided 1,825 planning applications in total, 1,302 of them householder. 99% of the householder decisions were made within eight weeks, and eight weeks is the decision period set in the Development Management Procedure Order for an application that is not major development.
Of those householder applications, 83% were granted. The figures describe the borough as a whole and are not a forecast.
Appeals
Richmond has 383 householder appeals decided in the Planning Inspectorate casework database, with 43% allowed. Across every type of appeal, 37% were allowed. An appeal can succeed, but it costs time, and good drawings at the start are the cheaper route.
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 |
| £548 | Fees for planning applications in England from 1 April 2026 (MHCLG, SI 2012/2920 as annually indexed), category 6(1): householder application for the enlargement, improvement or alteration of a single dwellinghouse (source wording: £548) | assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |
| Design and Access Statement | Planning practice guidance, Making an application, paragraph 030: a Design and Access Statement is required for major development, some development in conservation areas and World Heritage Sites, and listed building consent applications | www.gov.uk |
| 1,302 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 83% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 99% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 383 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 43% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 85 | 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 |
| 1,825 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 37% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | 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 |