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01Hackney, London

Listed building consent drawings in Hackney

In Hackney only 18.8% of households live in a house, so a listed address here is as likely to be one flat in a converted building as a whole dwelling. That changes the survey: we draw the flat, the common stair and the façade it shares with other owners, and mark which of them the listing reaches. A chartered architectural technologist (MCIAT) does the measuring.

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    02The brief

    Surveying a flat inside a listed building

    A listing protects the whole building, so the work in your flat may touch fabric that belongs to someone else, such as the party wall, the staircase or the front windows. We survey your unit and the shared parts around it, and on the proposal sheets we colour what changes inside your demise separately from what changes outside it.

    That split helps the officer, and it helps the freeholder, whose agreement the lease may require.

    Red-brick mansion blocks and shopfronts on a street corner
    Upper floors of a large yellow-brick Victorian house in London with chimney pots
    Photograph: Lorenc Memaga

    03The record

    Local figures for Hackney

    Figures with their unit, period and source
    MeasureValuePeriodSource
    NPPF Aug 2026, policy HE5(1)Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importanceNo periodgov.uk
    NPPF Aug 2026, policy HE6(1)Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assetsNo periodgov.uk
    Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 s9(1), s9(4)Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentNo periodlegislation.gov.uk
    Class E, para E.1(g)Garden buildings within the curtilage of a listed building are not permitted developmentNo periodlegislation.gov.uk
    Listed building entries555 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade I listed entries8 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade II* listed entries30 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade II listed entries510 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Heritage at Risk entries40 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Conservation areas37 named conservation areas published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Article 4 directions77 Article 4 directions published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Households living in a house18.8 % of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)Census 2021nomisweb.co.uk
    Listed building consent decisions (PS2)71 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Listed building consents granted (PS2)85.9 % granted2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

    A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.

    Hackney6 neighbouring councils
    Councils bordering Hackney

    04The streets

    Householder applications by street in Hackney

    Streets in Hackney with the most householder applications, and the share approved
    StreetApplicationsApproved
    Winston Road5288%
    Osbaldeston Road3969%
    Rushmore Road3783%
    Forburg Road3165%
    Olinda Road3171%
    Durlston Road3089%
    Powerscroft Road3093%
    Brooke Road2874%
    Elderfield Road2580%
    Glyn Road25100%
    Kyverdale Road2576%
    Lavender Grove2477%
    Alkham Road2370%
    Clifden Road2391%
    Culford Road2376%

    Counts of householder applications by street; no individual applications are shown. Streets with fewer than five applications are left out.

    GLA Planning London Datahub, householder applications

    05The drawing

    The listed building consent routeA, What the council weighs: Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. B, The weight given to conservation: Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets. C, Hackney: consents decided: 71 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend). D, Hackney: consents granted: 85.9 % granted. E, Works without consent: Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentSurvey and significanceHeritage statementDrawings and scheduleCouncil decisionABCDE

    The listed building consent route

    How works to a listed building are consented, from the first survey to the decision.

    A What the council weighs
    Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance
    B The weight given to conservation
    Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets
    C Hackney: consents decided
    71 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)
    D Hackney: consents granted
    85.9 % granted
    E Works without consent
    Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment
    The listed house in its terrace3D
    Scroll the page: the model turns with it.

    06The detail

    What Hackney publishes, and what we read it against

    The council's guidance on alterations is its Residential extensions and alterations SPD, and the local plan is the Hackney Local Plan 2033 (LP33). Neither gives us a listed-building line we can quote with a verified source, so we do not paraphrase one.

    The test that binds is national. Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. The weighting is stated as: Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets. We read both against the list entry for your address before drawing a line.

    A long list with a heavy repair load

    The list holds 555 entries, and the grades run 8 at I, 30 at II* and 510 at II. 40 entries sit on the Heritage at Risk Register.

    Grade does not decide whether consent is needed. The whole building is protected, inside and out, at every grade.

    Conservation areas and Article 4

    A listed building here can also sit in one of 37 conservation areas. The Article 4 register adds 77 directions across 197 area boundaries, so one drawing may face several different questions.

    Garden buildings need care too. Garden buildings within the curtilage of a listed building are not permitted development, so a rear-garden studio behind a listed building starts with the consent question.

    Decisions, offence and neighbouring applications

    Hackney decided 71 applications to alter or extend a listed building in its latest four quarters and granted 85.9%. Each application stands on its own drawings, so the figure shows volume only.

    Consent has no council fee. The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 sets the penalty for skipping it: Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment.

    A roof change on the same building is a separate application, drawn under mansard roof drawings in Hackney, and a lower floor under basement conversion drawings in Hackney. For the neighbouring borough, see Islington.

    Planning sheet for a single-storey rear extension: proposed ground floor plan and rear elevation, with the Property Architecture title block
    Sample drawing. Proposed plan and rear elevation from a planning application set, sheet 03 at 1:50.

    07The papers

    What the drawings rest on

    Pencil resting on a dimensioned technical drawing beside a scale ruleArchitectural design
    Photograph: Sven Mieke
    Building regulations section through a rear extension, with the roof, floor, wall and foundation build-ups labelled
    Sample drawing. Section A-A with the build-ups building control checks, sheet 07 at 1:50.

    08Correspondence

    Questions

    I own a flat in a listed Hackney building. Do I need the freeholder's agreement?

    Often, yes, because the work can touch shared fabric, and your lease may require it. The consent application is separate from that, and we draw it so the freeholder can see what affects the shared parts.

    Do I need consent to replace windows in a listed Hackney building?

    If the new windows differ from the originals in material, pattern or detail, yes: that changes the character the listing protects. Give us the address and we read the list entry before we tell you the route.

    Does it cost anything to ask whether works to a listed building are lawful?

    A certificate of lawfulness for proposed works to a listed building carries no council fee. Our own fee is a fixed quote after a free check, because it depends on how much of the building the work touches.

    Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street

    18.8%

    of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)

    Households living in a house, Hackney, Census 2021. Source: nomisweb.co.uk

    Photograph: Altaf Shah

    09Further reading

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