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Free Kensington and Chelsea permitted development checker
Could your home project use permitted development? Start with your full address and tell us what you want to build.
You do not need to know the planning route before you start. The check uses available public records and your project details to provide guidance, not a council decision.
About the planning data
Checked against 20.6 million UK planning applications on file across 420 planning authorities. Approval rates from 2,343,419 decisions we classified across 181 councils in England.
What are you checking?
Whether your proposed work may qualify for permitted development, needs a prior approval process or requires a planning application. The property and the complete proposal matter, including earlier additions and conditions on previous permissions.
Read how prior approval works and how planning timescales differ by route.
A postcode locates an area; it cannot establish rights for a particular house. Use your full property address in the checker.
Find guidance for your project
- Rear extensions and larger home extensions
- Side and wraparound extensions
- Loft conversions and dormers
- Garden rooms and outbuildings
- Garage conversions
- Porches
- Two-storey extensions
- Basements
For development beyond a home improvement, read our new build and change of use guides. Those projects have different eligibility tests and need a project-specific assessment.
Local checks in Kensington and Chelsea
Check the wording, map and effective date of any Article 4 direction, the property's planning conditions and whether designated land affects the relevant right. A restriction on one type of work does not automatically prohibit every alteration.
Use these resources for Kensington and Chelsea. Confirm the authority for your address if you are close to a boundary or the area has changed council.
- Kensington and Chelsea official website and planning information
- Search Kensington and Chelsea planning applications and decision notices
- Kensington and Chelsea planning authority boundary and source
- Find the planning authority for your postcode
We have not verified every local restriction for every address in Kensington and Chelsea. Confirm property-specific details against the authority's current records before relying on permitted development.
Our Kensington and Chelsea archive contains 12,958 classified home project decision records. Explore Kensington and Chelsea decisions by project type. These records mix application routes: an approval rate is not a permitted development eligibility score. See the coverage and methodology.
Permitted development restrictions in Kensington and Chelsea
Kensington and Chelsea has a borough-wide Article 4 direction removing specified basement extension rights for single dwelling houses. Its Class E to residential direction covers mapped parts of the borough, and other site-specific directions also exist. Check which direction applies to the proposed work.
- Kensington and Chelsea Article 4 directions
- Kensington and Chelsea conservation areas, maps and appraisals
- Kensington and Chelsea submission requirements and validation list
- Kensington and Chelsea Local Plan 2024
Sources reviewed . Check the source maps, wording and effective dates against your property and proposed work.
Certificate records to investigate
Selected archive records, not a representative sample or a prediction for your address. The descriptions below are archive excerpts and may be shortened; read the original decision and plans before relying on them.
- CL/24/07264 · Recorded approved (2025)
Construction of single storey outbuilding to part of rear patio garden to provide staff rest room facility and store. (Certificate of Lawful Proposed Use/ De...
Search the council register for CL/24/07264 - CL/25/02393 · Recorded approved (2025)
Construction of single storey rear extension (Certificate of Lawful Proposed Development/Use)
Search the council register for CL/25/02393
A certificate concerns the lawfulness of the scheme described. Another property's certificate does not establish your permitted development rights. Read the archive's coverage and limitations.
Do you need a permitted development certificate?
A proposed lawful development certificate gives formal confirmation that the development described is lawful. It is optional and is different from prior approval or a planning application. Read our lawful development certificate guide.
The free check does not grant permission or replace a certificate. Check official certificate guidance and the government's explanation of planning routes.