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01Richmond upon Thames, London

Listed building consent drawings for Richmond upon Thames houses

A listed house in Richmond upon Thames may also stand inside one of 85 conservation areas, so the listing and the street are both in play. We draw the existing fabric and the proposal side by side, so the council can see what is kept, what is repaired and what changes.

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    02The brief

    What Richmond's plan expects of works to a listed house

    The council's listed buildings policy sits in the Richmond Local Plan 2024-2039. Officers resist loss of significant fabric, and an application has to rest on a proportionate significance assessment. In practice every original room, stair, chimney breast and window is treated as evidence on the drawings.

    The plan also expects appropriate materials and specialist techniques, so each repair on our sheets names the method and the material as well as the location. National policy points the same way. Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. The listed building consent drawings hub sets out the whole route.

    Upper floors of a large yellow-brick Victorian house in London with chimney pots
    Pencil resting on a dimensioned technical drawing beside a scale rule
    Photograph: Sven Mieke

    03The record

    Local figures for Richmond upon Thames

    Figures with their unit, period and source
    MeasureValuePeriodSource
    Removal or modification of original structure, layout, features and materials contributing to listed building significance resistedresist loss of significant fabricNo periodrichmond.gov.uk, Richmond upon Thames Local Plan 2024 to 2039 (adopted October 2025), Policy 29 A.4, p.280-281
    Works to listed buildings must rest on proportionate understanding of significance; appropriate materials and specialist techniques expectedproportionate significance assessmentNo periodrichmond.gov.uk, Richmond upon Thames Local Plan 2024 to 2039 (adopted October 2025), Policy 29 A.5, A.7
    Local planRichmond Local Plan 2024-2039No periodrichmond.gov.uk
    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
    Concessions: application types with no current fee - Listed Building Consent0 GBPNo periodribblevalley.gov.uk
    Listed building entries819 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade I listed entries40 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Conservation areas85 named conservation areas published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Heritage at Risk entries17 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Listed building consent decisions (PS2)100 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)91 % 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.

    Richmond upon Thames6 neighbouring councils
    Councils bordering Richmond upon Thames

    04The streets

    Householder applications by street in Richmond upon Thames

    Streets in Richmond upon Thames with the most householder applications, and the share approved
    StreetApplicationsApproved
    Waverley Avenue4072%
    Castelnau3981%
    Lyndhurst Avenue2883%
    Lincoln Avenue2687%
    Cole Park Road2583%
    Redway Drive2583%
    Sheen Road2565%
    Ormond Crescent2381%
    Ullswater Road2385%
    Gladstone Avenue2264%
    Madrid Road2280%
    The Vineyard2280%
    Haliburton Road21100%
    Houblon Road2190%
    Cleveland Gardens2083%

    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, Richmond upon Thames: consents decided: 100 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend). D, Richmond upon Thames: consents granted: 91 % 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 Richmond upon Thames: consents decided
    100 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)
    D Richmond upon Thames: consents granted
    91 % 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

    Listed houses inside a borough of conservation areas

    Of Richmond's 819 listed entries, 40 hold the top grade, 88 are Grade II* and 686 are Grade II. They sit among 85 named conservation areas, so a listed house is often under two layers at once: the listing for the building and the area for its street. 17 entries appear on the Heritage at Risk Register.

    The borough also holds 1 World Heritage Site and 16 registered parks and gardens. Kew shows what that means on the ground. The council's Kew Green appraisal states that the conservation area is under the buffer zone of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew World Heritage Site. A listed house near the Green may therefore be read against its setting as well as its fabric, and our survey records the roofline and boundaries as carefully as the rooms. The Kew neighbourhood guide covers its conservation areas.

    How past applications have fared

    Across the most recent four published quarters the council decided 100 applications to alter or extend a listed building and granted 91% of them. That describes past decisions, not the outcome of yours. The national table shows £0 for the consent, while a planning application made alongside it carries its own fee.

    Officers sometimes ask for amendments. Those come back to us, and we revise the set without a further drawing charge. A second chartered technologist checks every set before it goes in, and the person who checks is never the person who drew it.

    When the same house also needs planning permission

    Consent covers the building and permission covers the land, so one scheme can need both. A new roof storey on a listed Richmond house also needs mansard roof drawings for Richmond upon Thames, and a lower floor needs basement conversion drawings drawn to the borough's own basement policy.

    A studio or shed at the bottom of a listed house's garden is the usual surprise. Garden buildings within the curtilage of a listed building are not permitted development, so it needs its own application before anyone orders materials.

    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

    Red-brick mansion blocks and shopfronts on a street cornerMeasured surveys
    Photograph: Tom McCarten
    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

    Does a house in a Richmond conservation area need listed building consent?

    Only if the house itself is listed, because consent attaches to the listing. An unlisted house in one of the 85 conservation areas follows the planning route, and an Article 4 direction can add permission requirements. We check the list entry and the area before we quote.

    Which Richmond policy do the drawings answer?

    The listed buildings policy in the Richmond Local Plan 2024-2039. Its two working tests are to resist loss of significant fabric and to require a proportionate significance assessment, so each sheet marks what is original, what is repaired and what changes.

    My builder has already stripped a room in my listed Richmond house. What now?

    Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment. Ask the builder to stop, photograph every surface that is left, and send the pictures with the address. We then work out what remains to be recorded and how to approach the council.

    How is a Richmond listed building job priced?

    We name one price for the drawing set after reading the list entry and the conservation area around it. It follows the number of rooms and elevations affected, and the council itself takes no fee for the consent.

    Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street

    91%

    granted

    Listed building consents granted (PS2), Richmond upon Thames, 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026). Source: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

    Photograph: Altaf Shah

    09Further reading

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