Planning permission in Mitcham, CR4
Planning applications for Mitcham homes go to Merton Council, online, with plans to scale, the £548 householder fee and whatever its validation checklist asks for. Merton granted 93% of its 759 householder decisions in the latest four quarters. DrawingsDirect, MCIAT chartered architectural technologists, prepares the drawings from £745.
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Passing Merton's validation checklist
Merton Council's local validation checklist lists the documents it expects with each type of application, and an application missing one is held back until it arrives. People searching for the Mitcham planning portal are usually at this stage, trying to submit or to find out why a case has not started.
Match your submission to the council's list for your project type and to the national requirements in the government's guidance on making an application. Our location and block plans page explains the two plans that most often cause delay.
How quickly Merton decides
Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (released 24 Sep 2026), found that 75% of Merton's householder decisions, excluding prior approvals, were made within 8 weeks across 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2. The 8 weeks comes from article 34 of the Development Management Procedure Order and runs from the day after the application is received.
The remaining decisions came after that mark, so do not fix a builder's start date on the day the period ends. See how planning permission timings vary.
Our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026) covers 108 householder appeals decided for Merton from 2021 to 2026, with 36% allowed; across all appeal types 28% were allowed.
What was decided, and how much was granted
Merton made 759 householder decisions in those four quarters, prior approvals included, and 93% were grants. Across all application types it made 1,073 decisions.
Those totals describe the borough over a year. They are context for a decision about your project, not evidence of what the council will do with it.
A rear extension in CR4
If your Mitcham project is a rear extension, the existing house has to be drawn accurately before the proposal can be judged against it. A measured floor plan of the house as it stands is the base for everything that follows.
Appeals and conservation areas
Our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026) covers 108 householder appeals decided for Merton from 2021 to 2026, with 36% allowed; across all appeal types 28% were allowed. The MHCLG Planning Data Platform lists 28 entries on the national register of conservation areas for the borough, so check the council's own map for your street.
The two fees
Merton charges £548 for a householder application from 1 April 2026. Our fixed fee for householder planning drawings, including the survey, drawings, design statement and submission, starts at £745 (see pricing). A Design and Access Statement is needed for major development, some conservation area schemes and listed building consent only.
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), 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 |
| 759 | 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 |
| 75% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 108 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 36% | 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 |
| 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 |
| 28% | 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 |
Questions people ask
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Photographs: David Anstiss (CC BY-SA 2.0).
