CHP Surveyors has handled instructions across Billericay since 2004 and works from offices in Wickford, London and Hampshire. Faster local attendance from Wickford keeps the process moving compared with London-led practices on these jobs. The team is RICS regulated and covers the surrounding villages: Stock, Galleywood, Mountnessing, Ramsden Heath and the western edge of Wickford itself. Many instructions also touch rights of light assessments where extensions affect lower window levels on adjoining properties.
From there the surveyor drafts and serves notices, gathers responses, and prepares the schedule of condition. Photographs and descriptive notes cover the adjoining property fully so that any later claim of damage can be assessed against a clear baseline. Where the matter is agreed, paperwork stays proportionate. Where dispute arises, the party wall award is drafted properly, signed, and served. Calls are answered by the surveyor running the file. Building owners and adjoining owners in Billericay deal with one named contact, not a rotating support team.
Notice periods under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 are non-negotiable: two months for party structure works, one month for excavations within three or six metres of an adjoining building. Building owners generally cover reasonable surveyor fees on both sides under the Act. For Billericay projects, especially those in conservation areas where planning conditions stack with party wall requirements, an early free initial assessment reduces risk on both sides.
