Our Essex team works across the county and the practice carries over 30 years of combined surveying experience, RICS regulated throughout. Most airspace schemes need airspace development advice on feasibility and the planning route through the relevant district or borough council before an application is prepared.
Where a developer is adding flats above an existing residential block, the role widens to full occupant liaison. We make initial contact with each leaseholder, hold attended 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. Day-to-day issues, scaffolding, deliveries, parking, access, get resolved as they arise, with daylight and sunlight reports typically forming part of the planning submission.
Airspace work across Essex 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 completion.
Some upward extensions across Essex fall within permitted development rights with prior approval, while larger rooftop schemes on blocks of flats almost always need a full planning application. Conservation areas, listed buildings, and protected views rule out some sites entirely. Rights of light claims sit outside the planning process but often run in parallel where height affects surrounding properties.
