Lawful Development Certificate, prepared and filed, £349.
If the council refuses, we refund our £349 fee in full. The £264 statutory council filing fee is paid to the council at submission and is not refundable. Panic-proof paperwork for your sale.
Check if your property qualifies →- 5 minute pre-validation against every GPDO clause, we tell you before you pay
- Drafted, filed and monitored inside the 8 week council clock
- Backed by 24 real Planning Inspector appeal decisions
Your buyer's solicitor just added weeks to your sale
You're selling your house. The buyer's solicitor spots an extension, loft conversion or garden office and wants proof it was lawful. That proof is a Lawful Development Certificate.
Without one, the sale stalls. Your solicitor's fallback is indemnity insurance, a cheap one-off policy that pays out only if the council ever takes formal enforcement action against the work (making you undo it, or prosecuting). That's rare. But the solicitor still needs the lawfulness question off the table before exchange.
A planning consultant charges £600 to £1,500 for the drafting alone, plus the £264 council fee. £864 to £1,764 total, four to six weeks to even start, no guarantee of outcome.
We're £613 all-in (£349 service + £264 council), start within 48 hours, and refund our £349 in full if the council refuses.
Priced certainty, not a promise of speed
Pre-validation
We screen your project against every clause of GPDO Part 1 Classes A, B and E, the same rules the council's planning officer checks. If your project can't win, we tell you before you pay.
Flat-fee pricing
£349 service fee + £264 council fee, captured up front as separate line items. No complexity surcharge, no per hour creep, no surprise add-ons.
Full refund if refused
The council has 8 weeks to decide. If they refuse, we refund our £349 in full. The £264 statutory council fee is paid to the council when we file and isn't recoverable from us.
Any council in England, three project types, householders only
Enter your postcode and we auto-detect your council. Class A (rear / side extensions), Class B (loft / roof alterations), Class E (outbuildings, including garden offices). No flats, no listed buildings, no Article 4 directions, no conservation areas.
The 8 week council clock is statute. What you're buying is what happens after.
Nobody can promise you a faster decision, and any service that does is setting up a disappointment. What we sell is the only thing that matters to your buyer's solicitor: a council issued certificate that settles the question permanently. Indemnity insurance doesn't. It pays if the council pursues you; it doesn't resolve the underlying lawfulness. An LDC does.
Full refund conditions
If your council refuses your Lawful Development Certificate, we refund our service fee in full within 14 working days, £349 on Standard, £449 on Express.
The £264 statutory council filing fee is paid by us to the council on your behalf at submission and isn't recoverable from us, so it isn't part of the refund.
The guarantee doesn't apply where the council's refusal cites information you materially misrepresented at intake (undisclosed listed status, Article 4 Direction, live enforcement action), where you didn't respond to a case officer request within 10 working days, or where you changed the project after we filed and the refusal relates to the change.
Full detail in our Terms of Service.