Drawings for planning permission in Sidcup DA14
Drawings for planning permission in Sidcup start at £745 with no VAT to add with DrawingsDirect, for householder work covering the survey, drawings, design statement and submission. The council fee is separate: Bexley charges the national £548 for a householder application.
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What the £745 covers and what the £548 does not
Two payments sit behind a Sidcup householder application, and they go to different people. Our fixed fee starts at £745 with no VAT to add. It is for householder planning drawings, and it covers the survey, the drawings, a design statement and the submission itself.
The planning fee is the council's, not ours. For a householder application to enlarge, improve or alter a single dwellinghouse, the statutory fee from 1 April 2026 is £548. We do not add to it or fold it into our price, so you can see exactly where each pound goes.
Bexley's householder record, in the council's own published numbers
Sidcup DA14 falls under Bexley. Over the four quarters from 2025 Q3 to 2026 Q2, Bexley decided 877 householder applications, a count that includes prior approvals. Of those, 95% were granted.
Across every type of application, not only householder ones, Bexley made 1,258 decisions in the same four quarters. Householder applications are most of that workload.
These come from our analysis of the government's planning application statistics, table PS2, released on 24 September 2026. They describe the past, not a promise about your own application, which is judged on its own drawings and its own street.
Bexley has 31 live conservation areas in the national planning data.
How long a Sidcup decision takes
The legal clock for an application that is not major development is 8 weeks, beginning with the day after the council receives it. That comes from article 34 of the Development Management Procedure Order 2015.
In the same four-quarter window, our analysis of Bexley's figures shows 100% of householder decisions, excluding prior approvals, made within 8 weeks. Plan your building start around the decision period rather than around the day you submit.
Refusals, appeals and the figure to keep in proportion
A refusal is not always the end. The Planning Inspectorate decided 157 householder-development appeals from Bexley between 2021 and 2026, and allowed 34% of them.
Across all appeal types for Bexley over the same years the allowed share is 30%. Appeals take time and rest on the drawings and reasons already put to the council, which is why we would rather get the first set right.
We say this as context, not as a forecast. A figure for the whole borough cannot tell you how a particular extension in DA14 will fare.
Conservation areas and the design statement
Bexley has 31 live conservation areas in the national planning data. Whether your Sidcup address sits inside one changes what you must submit, so it is the first thing worth checking.
Planning practice guidance says a Design and Access Statement is required for major development, some development in conservation areas and World Heritage Sites, and listed building consent applications. A plain householder extension outside those categories does not fall under that requirement.
Our householder package includes a design statement anyway, so the officer sees what is proposed and why in one place.
What the drawings themselves must show
National guidance on making an application says plans and drawings must be drawn to an identified scale, and that plans must show the direction of north. A sketch without either will not do.
That is the baseline. Existing and proposed plans, elevations and a site plan are what a Sidcup householder submission is built from, drawn from a survey of the house as it stands.
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 |
| 877 | 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 |
| 1,258 | 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 |
| 100% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 157 | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 34% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 30% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 31 | 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 |
| 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 |