The practice is RICS regulated and has worked on residential extension and rooftop schemes for many years. Larger schemes typically run alongside airspace development advice on feasibility, planning routes, and the supporting surveys required for submission.
On larger rooftop schemes in the city centre, the existing occupants liaison role is the central piece. We make first contact with leaseholders below the proposed units, attend meetings to address concerns, record Schedules of Condition for each affected flat, and remain the named point of contact through the build. Practical site issues, parking, deliveries, scaffolding, access, are dealt with as they come up alongside party wall services on the building itself.
Airspace projects in Chelmsford almost always sit 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.
Some upward extensions on houses can proceed under permitted development with a prior approval application, while rooftop additions to blocks of flats almost always need a full planning application. Right of light is normally a separate common law matter from planning. Rights of light assessments sit outside the planning process but often run in parallel. A free initial assessment covers the most likely route for a given site.
