Can I Use a Floor Plan for Land Registry?
Marketing and EPC floor plans are sales and energy tools — not Land Registry documents. Registration needs a specialist lease plan to scale with red demise edging.
Can I use a floor plan for Land Registry?
No.. Estate agency, EPC and marketing floor plans are not drawn to HM Land Registry standards. They usually lack a stated metric scale, red demise edging, a north point and an Ordnance Survey location plan. Submitting one with a registration application commonly leads to a requisition. You need a specialist lease plan prepared for Land Registry compliance.
Short answer: no
No. Estate agency, EPC and marketing floor plans are not drawn to HM Land Registry standards. They usually lack a stated metric scale, red demise edging, a north point and an Ordnance Survey location plan. Submitting one with a registration application commonly leads to a requisition.
You need a specialist lease plan prepared specifically for Land Registry compliance — even if a marketing plan of the same flat already exists.
Why marketing floor plans fall short
Agency floor plans are designed to help buyers understand layout and approximate room sizes. They are often not printed to a stated scale, may use “not to scale” disclaimers, and rarely show communal areas, rights of way or an OS location plan. None of that is a problem for Rightmove — it is a problem for the register.
EPC plans serve energy assessment. They are not intended to define legal demise and should not be reused for registration.
| Feature | Marketing / EPC plan | Lease plan |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Sales or energy rating | Legal registration |
| Stated metric scale | Often missing | Required (e.g. 1:100 / 1:200) |
| Red demise edging | No | Yes |
| OS location plan | No | Yes |
| North point | Rare | Required |
| Land Registry accepted? | No | When compliant |
Marketing floor plan vs lease plan
What happens if you submit the wrong plan?
HM Land Registry will usually raise a requisition asking for a compliant plan. That pauses the application until a corrected drawing is filed, which can delay exchange, completion or lease registration by days or weeks depending on how quickly a proper plan can be produced.
Attempting to “fix” a marketing PDF by adding coloured lines yourself rarely works — the underlying scale and OS relationship still have to be right.
What you need instead
A compliant lease plan includes a scaled floor plan, demised area edged in red, communal areas in green where relevant, a north point, scale bar, floor levels, and an Ordnance Survey based location plan. It must match the lease wording and be printed at the stated scale.
If you already have good architectural drawings, we can often produce a DIY lease plan from £99 + VAT. Otherwise a measured survey from £199 + VAT (residential) is the reliable route.
Related reading
If your application has already been requisitioned, see our guides on common rejection reasons and what to do after Land Registry rejects a plan. Getting the right plan type from the start remains the fastest path to registration.
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