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Our Architectural drawings show an accurate visual concept of your proposal including existing and proposed floorplans and elevations. This therefore makes our drawings suitable for submission as part of a planning application. We work closely with councils across the South East to ensure our drawings exceed the requirements expected by most planning departments.

When building within your lawful development rights, you will still need to apply for a lawful development certificate. For a lawful development certificate, you will still need general planning drawings to submit as part of the application. A lawful development certificate, although not a full planning application, is proof that your project has been designed/constructed lawfully.

Most planning applications do need to have Architectural drawing accompanied with them. For some applications, if the project is small, you may only require sketches but please bare in mind that for a planning officer to determine a decision they must have as much information as possible to support an application.

There are 2 main options to consider if an application is refused: You can re submit a new application free of charge within a 12 month time frame, submitting new or amended plans after considering the reasons for refusal. You can make an appeal to the appeal inspectorate. Once this appeal is made it is out of authorities hands. A decision will be made with a new approach considering the initial application and drawings. This can take long for a decision to be reached and an appeal is only usually made after option 1 has failed.

In most instances a case officer from the planning department will make a site visit to help their determination during the 8 week process. They will usually arrange a convenient time but on some occasions can just turn up unannounced.