Haringey's residential stock is unusually divided between two distinct halves. The eastern parts of the borough through Tottenham, Wood Green, Seven Sisters, and Tottenham Hale carry significant post-war and 1960s estates with mid-rise residential blocks suited to rooftop schemes. The western parts of the borough through Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, and Stroud Green carry primarily Victorian and Edwardian terraces, often in conservation areas, where upward extensions on individual homes occasionally come forward but the heritage protection limits scope on many sites.
We specialise in chartered surveying on dense urban sites where rooftop and upward extension schemes are most common. The practice is RICS regulated with over 30 years of combined residential extension and rooftop experience. Daylight and sunlight reports typically accompany the planning submission for schemes that add height in the borough's denser areas.
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.
On rooftop additions to Haringey's post-war estates across Tottenham, Wood Green, and Seven Sisters, the existing occupants liaison role is central. 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 the new units, and act as the named point of contact through construction. Day-to-day issues, scaffolding placement, deliveries, parking restrictions, and noise, get handled as they arise.
On homeowner-led upward extensions across the borough's terraced areas, the focus shifts to the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, neighbour relations, and protection of the existing structure during construction. Party wall services are nearly always involved given Haringey's dense building pattern and the prevalence of shared structures.
Airspace work in Haringey 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 during working hours, disruption to access and parking, scaffolding obscuring windows, and concern about damage to their flats. In Haringey's mix of dense estates and tight-street terraces, those effects are particularly visible because neighbouring residential buildings sit so close to the site.
Strong liaison and a thorough Schedule of Condition deal with most of this before it starts. Residents get one named contact, the developer gets a structured process for concerns raised, and the Schedule provides documented evidence if a damage claim arises later. Planning sits with the London Borough of Haringey, and rights of light assessments often run in parallel where new height affects surrounding properties.
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Head Office
2-6 Boundary Row
London, SE1 8HP
Essex Office
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
