How to do a scaled drawing for planning permission ?

georgiebrown0

I am trying to save money and have brought a cheap conservatory off ebay and are in the middle of applying for planning permission. I have been told by the council that i need to do three scaled drawings from both side views and a back view of the house and conservatory. I wondered if there was a cheap way of me doing this ?

Gloomendoom

You need a ruler, a tape measure, a pencil and some paper.

That's about it.


Edit: If your council publishes planning applications online, it is a good place to see how other people have done it.

iamcornholio

Many of the conservatory planning apps I see - both by homeowners and the conservatory companies, are just basic rectangles for the walls and windows, and triangles for the roofs. And thats all it needs to be ... nothing fancy.

For scale, 1:100 is normal, so if your house measures say 10m across, then the size on paper will be 10cm

You will also need OS (Ordinance Survey) site and location plans with the site outlined in red.

But first, make sure you actually need permsission, and that the conseravatory is not permitted development.

googler

Assuming it's not permitted development,

Ask the council which scales are acceptable to them, and also ask if you need to provide a location plan or block plan outlining where your property and the extension are in relation to neighbouring properties.

Also establish what requirements there are for neighbour notification

Establish what the council needs so that you only make your application once, and don't lose your application fee when your application is declined on a technicality.

georgiebrown0

Thanks for all the advice. I have had my site and block plans already done and did have someone do a cad drawing for free, but dont feel I can ask again.

googler

Also, although the council have asked for side and back views, won't they be expecting a plan view, too....?

julianashcroft

Do it yourself using http://www.roomarranger.com/ It will print off scaled drawings and is pretty easy to use.

ormus

by using cheap graph paper makes the task so much easier.
proper scale rulers are not expensive. try viking direct.

ktuludays

google sketchup is good and free!

27col

Ormus beat me to it. Buy a scale rule. Makes the job much easier.

dander

I did a similar thing and couldn't find any software that would do the job easily for me - all the free stuff seemed very prescriptive and hard to create truly customised design. There wasn't much out there that could cope with non-right-angles or be really accurate with measurements. And although there was a lot of floorplan programmes around, there wasn't anything that could easily produce decent elevations. Plus with the time it would have taken to learn how to create something decent looking in a programme that I was unfamiliar with, it was far simpler to just get a ruler and a piece of graph paper! Splashed out on a nice fine drawing pen from Smiths to get a decent finish.
The hardest part was getting accurate vertical measurements of the house and getting the roof pitch right - the drawing bit was dead easy.