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Architectural drawings are widely used for a number of purposes, and can come in numerous distinctive forms depending on your preferences. For many extensions or loft conversions at least some kind of architectural drawing will be required, either to submit to councils or local authorities for planning permission or building regulations approval, or for use by building contractors to properly complete the building works.
Architectural drawings can are also available in the form of 3d modelling to help provide an impression of what the complete works will look like. Most modern architectural drawings are created by making use of CAD software and delivered digitally, and a number of architectural companies use these drawings to send directly to local authorities as part of planning applications or submissions for building regulations approval.
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Balham is a district in south London inside the London Borough of Wandsworth. The settlement appears within the Domesday Book as Belgeham. Bal means ârounded enclosure’ and ham a homestead, village or river enclosure. The area has been settled since Saxon times, and Balham Hill and Balham High Road follow the line of the Roman road Stane Street to Chichester.
Balham encompasses the A24 north of Tooting Bec and also the roads coming off it. The southern part of Balham which is near Tooting Bec has a block of 1930s Art Deco flats referred to as Du Cane Court. There is also the Heaver Estate which is in Tooting, which comprises substantial houses. It was built inside the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by local Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham is positioned amongst four south London commons, namely Clapham Common towards the north, Wandsworth Common towards the west, Tooting Graveney Common towards the south plus the connecting Tooting Bec towards the east.
In the Second World War, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly affected by air raids on London. People sheltered inside the tube station during the raids, however a bomb fell in the High Road and through the top of the Underground station, bursting a water and gas mains and killing about 64 individuals. Ian McEwan describes the event as part of his novel âAtonement’, published in 2001.