The practice is RICS regulated and our surveyors carry over 30 years of combined residential extension and rooftop experience. Rights of light assessments often run alongside the planning submission for schemes that add height in dense parts of the town.
On rooftop additions to seafront and town-centre blocks, the work centres on the existing occupants below. We make initial contact with each leaseholder, attend meetings to discuss concerns, record Schedules of Condition for the flats directly under the new units, and act as the named point of contact through construction. Day-to-day matters such as scaffolding placement, deliveries, parking, and access get handled as they arise, with airspace development advice covering the wider planning and feasibility picture.
Airspace schemes in Southend-on-Sea typically sit alongside daylight and sunlight, rights of light, and party wall workstreams on the same site. The same surveyor stays on the project from instruction to handover.
Some upward extensions on detached and semi-detached houses can proceed under permitted development with a prior approval application. Rooftop additions to blocks of flats almost always need a full planning application. Right of light is a separate common law matter from planning, and party wall services are usually triggered for the construction itself. A free initial assessment covers the likely route for a given site.
