Tilbury developed around the docks and the railway, leaving a residential stock that runs heavily toward post-war housing for port and industrial workers, with later council estates across the town centre and the streets running off Calcutta Road and Dock Road. The most common airspace project here is a single-storey home or bungalow raised to two storeys, followed by side-and-up extensions on semis. A meaningful volume of rooftop work also comes forward on the older 1960s low-rise blocks of flats around the centre. Our Essex team covers Tilbury alongside Grays, Chadwell St Mary, and the wider Thurrock area.
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 airspace work where new height affects surrounding terraces or estates.
As well as providing daylight, sunlight and rights of light advice, our role would be to make contact with the occupants of the existing building to establish any concerns regarding the development. We will work closely with the professional team to identify the initial questions and look at how these can be addressed.
It is our experience that maintaining the same point of contact for the duration of the project offers the existing occupants’ reassurance and continuity.
Smaller residential schemes account for most airspace work in Tilbury. For a homeowner-led upward extension or bungalow conversion in East Tilbury or Chadwell St Mary, the focus is the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, rights of light risk on adjoining homes, and protection of the existing structure during construction. Party wall notices are served on every adjoining owner where a shared wall is involved.
On rooftop additions to the older residential blocks, the existing occupants liaison role becomes the central piece. We make initial contact with each leaseholder, attend meetings to discuss concerns, prepare Schedules of Condition for the flats directly below the new units, and act as the named point of contact through construction. Practical site issues, scaffolding, deliveries, parking, access, get handled as they arise, with party wall services running on the building itself.
Airspace work in Tilbury 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.
Over the past four years, CHP have worked very successfully with us in their capacity as party wall surveyors. Through his calm, sensible approach and excellent communication skills James Crowley, in particular, gained the trust and confidence of the entire team and stakeholders. Looking forward to working with CHP again.”
- Clare Goggin, Jackson Coles
Residents below an airspace development carry the most direct impact: noise, disruption to access and parking, and concern about damage to their flats. Without a named surveyor handling that relationship through construction, those concerns turn into complaints, then claims, then programme delays. Strong occupant liaison heads off most of that before it begins.
The combination of a thorough Schedule of Condition and a named point of contact removes most of this before it starts. Residents get one named contact, the developer gets a structured process for concerns, and the Schedule provides documented evidence if a damage claim is later made. Planning sits with Thurrock Council, and a free initial assessment covers feasibility and the supporting workstreams on a specific site.
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Head Office
2-6 Boundary Row
London, SE1 8HP
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2-6 Boundary Row
London, SE1 8HP
020 3714 4090
Get in touch.
Head Office
2-6 Boundary Row
London, SE1 8HP
Essex Office
2nd Floor, 10 High Street
Wickford, Essex
SS12 9AZ
020 3714 4090
enquiries@chpsurveyors.com
