Planning permission in Streatham: floor plans and drawings
Streatham homes apply to Lambeth Council, which decided 595 householder applications in the four quarters to 2026 Q2 and granted 83% of them. DrawingsDirect draws the floor plans and the rest of the planning set from a fixed fee starting from £745, covering the survey, the drawings, the design statement and the submission.
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Start with the council whose figures these are
Every figure on this page is Lambeth's. The SW16 postcode is wider than Streatham itself, so confirm which council covers your address before relying on them; we will check it for you when you get in touch.
Lambeth's 595 householder decisions include prior approvals. Of the householder applications that were not prior approvals, 94% were decided within eight weeks, and the legal period for a non-major application is 8 weeks from the day after receipt. For every type of application together, Lambeth made 1,793 decisions in the same four quarters. The numbers are our analysis of the government's planning application statistics, table PS2.
Floor plans first, then the proposal
A Streatham application starts with an accurate floor plan of each level as it stands. If your house has never been surveyed, our measured floor plans for Lambeth homes give you the existing drawings, and the proposal is then drawn on top of them.
If you are weighing a loft conversion on a Victorian house, whether it needs an application depends on the work and the street, and our guide to planning permission for a loft conversion in London sets out the questions to ask. Drawings for the work itself are described on loft conversion drawings.
Our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database finds 220 Lambeth householder appeals decided between 2021 and 2026, of which 34% were allowed.
Conservation areas and article 4 in Lambeth
Our analysis of the Planning Data Platform finds 65 conservation-area entries on the national register for Lambeth, and 12 live article 4 entries. An article 4 direction withdraws specific permitted development rights, so work that would be permitted elsewhere may need an application on an affected street. The register can be incomplete. Ask Lambeth Council, or check its maps, before assuming a project is permitted development.
National 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. Our fee includes a design statement for householder applications, and the guide to design and access statements explains the content.
How Lambeth's appeals have gone
Our analysis of the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database finds 220 Lambeth householder appeals decided between 2021 and 2026, of which 34% were allowed. Across every kind of appeal on Lambeth decisions, 31% were allowed. These are histories of past cases. They do not predict the outcome of an individual appeal, and they are not a reason to expect a refusal.
Price, and the questions we do not answer
Our starting fee is £745. The council's fee is separate, and for a householder application it is £548 from 1 April 2026. See the pricing page for other work and planning permission in Lambeth for the borough as a whole.
If you came looking for right to light in Streatham, that is a separate neighbour matter and not a service we offer. What we do is the drawing and application work. The decision-period rules are in the Development Management Procedure Order.
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 |
| 595 | 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 |
| 94% | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 220 | 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 |
| 65 | 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 |
| 1,793 | Our analysis of MHCLG planning application statistics, table PS2 (district open data table) (released 24 Sep 2026, quarters to 2026 Q2) | www.gov.uk |
| 31% | Our analysis of Planning Inspectorate Casework Database (released 1 Oct 2026 (Casework Database 2609)) | www.gov.uk |
| 12 | 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 |
| 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 |