Our Essex team covers Harlow alongside Epping, Loughton, and the wider west Essex area. The practice is RICS regulated, and daylight and sunlight reports typically accompany the planning submission to Harlow District Council.
On the larger rooftop schemes across Harlow's post-war residential blocks, the existing occupants liaison role becomes the central piece. We make initial contact with each leaseholder below the proposed units, attend meetings to discuss concerns, prepare Schedules of Condition for the flats directly below, and act as the named point of contact through construction. Practical site issues, scaffolding, deliveries, parking, access, get handled as they come up alongside party wall services on the building itself.
Airspace work in Harlow typically sits alongside daylight and sunlight, rights of light, and party wall workstreams on the same scheme. The same surveyor stays on the project from instruction to handover.
Planning routes vary. Some upward extensions on houses in Harlow fall within permitted development, while larger rooftop schemes need a full application to Harlow District Council. Rights of light is a separate common law matter from planning, and rights of light assessments are often the workstream that catches surrounding owners' attention. A free initial assessment covers feasibility and the supporting workstreams for a given site.
