Planning and building regulation drawings in Ealing Broadway (W5)

Three conservation areas touch the district. Mount Park takes in the higher ground north of the Broadway, with close control of rooflines, materials and front elevations, while Ealing Common and Ealing Green follow the southern and eastern edges. Their boundaries overlap, so it is easy to assume an address is in one area when it falls in another, and that changes what the council will accept on the roof and the street side.

On the larger plots, side and rear additions are assessed against neighbouring garden and building lines, so the houses either side shape the design alongside the rules. Mature street trees on several of the villa roads carry Tree Preservation Orders, which can influence where an extension can sit. Ealing's borough-wide HMO direction applies here as it does across the borough, and is relevant if a big house is being considered for shared lets. We map these layers for the specific property before drawing begins.

Planning in Ealing Broadway: what to know before you apply

For W5 the first task is working out which conservation area a property sits in and what that means for the design. In the conservation areas, Ealing controls rooflines, materials and front elevations closely. A protected tree is checked early because it can move a footprint. Converting a house to a small HMO, shared by three to six unrelated people, is caught by the borough-wide Article 4 direction, which is separate from householder extension work. Flats and subdivided houses add questions of freeholder consent and party walls that sit outside planning. We establish all of this before drawing.

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