What is the difference between legal drawings and planning drawings?

A planning drawing is a legal drawing however if you are purchasing a property a drawing showing the boundary line of the proposed site is a legal drawing. This can be obtain from the land registry Cheer Nick

Afternoon, interesting question. It is best to get advise from your solicitor as to what the purpose of the legal drawings are and what exactly is required to be shown on the legal drawing/s in question. Planning and legal drawings are not one and the same. E.g. Due circumstances out of ones control one may not build everything that may show on consented planning drawing/s. So therefore it may not be a true representative of the land or property. The planning drawings may not show what is required legally. There might be too much information or too little. It is important to understand the legal purpose of the drawing/s. Hope this helps, the question is quite open.

Legal drawings are drawings attached to a legal agreement eg a lease contract , landlord approval for alterations etc. Planning drawings are drawings are drawings submitted to local authority to obtain planning permission. They can be one and the same in some cases. But they can be different.

By “legal drawings” I assume you mean the construction drawings which show how the building will comply with all building regulations. Planning drawings are usually fairly vague on details and allow a lot of leeway on how to construct what has been agreed. So, yes, they can differ. However anything shown on planning drawings must be Complied with, as should any planning conditions.

They might each have some information that the other does not have but any common informstion shoul be the same in both. Otherwise there may be large Costs in sorting out which ones are correct!

I assume your question relates to drawings which define legal ownership of a property. There are Ordnance Survey drawings available of every property which are used as the basis of title deeds. It is very common for these to be wrong in minor ways. Redefining those drawings is regularly asked for on MyBuilder as disputes arise over who owns what. These Ordnance Survey drawings are very small scale plans. Planning drawings are at a much larger scale. These show plans and elevations so provide much more detail. These are legal drawings in their own right. Due to the number of old buildings and lax control over the years, few houses have drawings which are relevant and often houses are modified with no record of what was changed added to original legal documents. In the case of flats plans which are atca similar scale to planning drawings usually 1:100, are then used to define ownership. Elevation drawings are not usually required to define legal ownership.