How a Lease Plan Is Prepared: Step-by-Step Guide
From instruction to final delivery, here is exactly how a compliant lease plan is prepared — and why each step matters for HM Land Registry acceptance.
Step 1: Instruction and review
The process begins when you send the property address and any existing plans, and tell us whether the property is residential or commercial. We review the information against HM Land Registry requirements and confirm a fixed price. If reliable scaled drawings exist, we may be able to work from them; otherwise we arrange a site survey.
Step 2: Site survey or data review
Where a survey is needed, a specialist visits the property and measures the demised area along with any shared parts that affect it — staircases, lobbies, gardens, yards and parking. Where we are working from supplied drawings, we verify they are complete and accurate enough to produce a compliant plan.
Step 3: AutoCAD drafting
The plan is drawn in AutoCAD to a recognised metric scale. We add the red demise edging, green communal areas, a north point, a scale bar, floor levels, and an Ordnance Survey based location plan so the property can be identified on the OS map. CAD ensures the plan is accurate and prints to exact scale.
Step 4: Approval
We email a draft PDF, usually within 48 hours. You — or your solicitor — review it and request any amendments before approving. This check ensures the plan matches the lease and the property before anything is printed.
Step 5: Printing and delivery
Once approved, we print the plan to scale on A3 or A4 and post up to four hard copies to your chosen address, ready for submission. For the official rules behind each step, see HM Land Registry’s guidance on preparing plans for applications on GOV.UK.
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