London Planning Drawings. 5 Days From Survey. Flat £1,200.
Stop paying 5% of your project cost for slow, inefficient drawings. We've rebuilt the UK extension and loft planning process from the ground up — 3,000+ London projects taught us every council quirk and terrace pattern, so your bespoke plans land 5 days after our surveyor visits, not 6 weeks later.
We Fixed The Planning Process
Before launching Hatch, we built one of London's largest platforms connecting over 3,000 homeowners a year with traditional planning architects — from Wandsworth to Hackney, Camden to Greenwich. We looked under the hood and found a broken, archaic industry.
High-street practices try to act as their own marketing team, finance director and sales rep. You pay for that overhead through inflated £4,000+ fees and a 6-week wait before a single line is drawn.
So we rebuilt the process from the ground up. Those 3,000+ projects taught us every council quirk, every refusal pattern, every terrace detail in the city — and we engineered a repeatable workflow around them. Your drawings are still bespoke to your home. The workflow is what's productised, not the design. That's how we deliver 10× the service, in a third of the time, at half the cost.
The London architecture market hasn't moved in 20 years. We rebuilt it from scratch.
Honest, line-by-line comparison versus the two alternatives London homeowners actually consider.
| Service Metric | High-Street RIBA Architect | Online Platform Aggregators | hatch. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site Survey | 2 hours of manual, error-prone tape measuring | Standard camera scan with 2-week lag | 45-Min Precision 3D Laser Cloud Scan |
| Turnaround Time | 4–6 weeks for initial concept ideas | 4–8 weeks through corporate queues | 5 Days From Survey to Drawings |
| Design Process | Reinventing the wheel on every property | Multi-stage consultative back-and-forth | Pre-mapped London terrace archetypes |
| Upfront Cost | 5–10% of total build cost (£4,000+) | Scaled corporate packages from £2,500+ | Flat £1,200 inc. VAT |
| Planning Submission | You chase the agent for weeks | Generic national portal upload | Lodged directly with your LPA on Planning Portal |
Five archetypes cover 90% of London properties
We've productised the planning workflow around the projects Londoners actually build. Each card shows the finished result alongside the kind of drawings we'd submit on your behalf.
Single-storey rear extension with bi-fold or sliding doors — the most common London project.
Glass-roofed infill that turns a narrow Victorian side passage into a full-width kitchen.
Rear dormer or L-shape dormer loft — adds the most value per pound on a London terrace.
L-shaped extension that maximises ground-floor footprint right out to the garden boundary.
Whole-house transformation drawn and submitted together — kitchen below, bedroom above.
How It Works
Seven steps from first enquiry to a submitted planning application. No bespoke chaos — every London project rolls down the same engineered track.
Submit Your Details
Tell us your address, property type and what you're hoping to build. Takes 60 seconds.
Free Context Report
We send a borough-specific planning brief — local policy, Article 4, recent approvals on your street and things to watch for.
Strategy Call
30-minute Zoom to walk through the report, hear what you want, and decide together whether we're the right fit.
Laser Survey On-Site
Vetted surveyor visits and captures a millimetre-accurate 3D scan of your home in under 45 minutes.
Plans in 5 Days
Our planning specialist drafts full CAD blueprints — 1:50 plans, elevations and sections — within five days of the survey.
Review & Comment
You're auto-notified when drawings are ready. Mark up comments directly on your dashboard — no email chains.
We Submit & Handle Council
Once you're happy, we lodge the application on the Planning Portal and manage every back-and-forth with the LPA.
Decision Issued
Most householder applications return a decision in 8 weeks. We track it and update you the moment it lands.
Validation Guarantee
100% council validation check pass. Free alterations if required.
Book a 15-minute call.
We'll come having already researched your property and your planning goals — and tell you straight what we think. No pitch, no obligation.
Greater London only · Excludes listed buildings, conservation area restrictions & basements