Planning and building regulation drawings in Wood Green (N22)

Move toward Bowes Park or the Common and the picture loosens a little, with the terraced streets carrying their own separate conservation designation. That mix means N22 isn't one planning conversation, it's four or five running at once depending on which side of the postcode you're on. Gladstone Avenue and Westbury Avenue both sit within that stretch of the district. None of it carries a directly removed permitted development right for standard house extensions here, so a lot of ground-floor and loft work can still go through without full planning permission, provided it stays inside the usual size and height limits. What changes the calculation is which of the district's conservation areas your specific address sits in, because that alone brings a design conversation that a plain terrace two streets over doesn't have.

We draw for both situations in N22: the straightforward rear extension on an unlisted Victorian terrace, and the trickier one where a client's cottage sits inside Noel Park and every window and roofline needs justifying against the estate's character.

Planning in Wood Green: what to know before you apply

Haringey's planners look for consistency first. In a street built to one plan, like Noel Park, they'll compare a proposed extension or loft against the pattern the whole estate follows, down to roofline and elevation detail, because the value of a model estate is in that uniformity. Elsewhere in Wood Green, where the housing is more mixed, the bar is usually more relaxed. A conservation area on its own, without an Article 4 direction, doesn't strip a single-storey rear extension of its permitted development right, but a site inside Bowes Park, Trinity Gardens or Wood Green Common does lose the permitted development routes for side extensions, extensions of more than one storey, roof enlargements, external cladding and the larger-home-extension prior-approval scheme, so those need a full planning application regardless of what's allowed a street away. Rear depth is its own separate issue on the older estate plots, where narrower gardens limit how far back you can realistically build regardless of what planning rules allow. We check which conservation area, if any, covers your specific address before we draw anything, because that single fact decides whether you're submitting a full application or working to permitted development limits.

Applications are decided by London Borough of Haringey — its planning pages.