Our Essex team covers Colchester alongside Braintree, Clacton, and the wider north Essex area. The practice is RICS regulated, and most schemes will need airspace development advice on feasibility before a planning application is prepared.
Where a developer is adding flats on top of an existing residential block, the existing occupants liaison role becomes the central piece of work. We make initial contact with each leaseholder below the proposed units, attend meetings to talk through their concerns, prepare Schedules of Condition for the flats directly below, and act as the named point of contact for the duration of the build. Day-to-day issues, scaffolding, deliveries, parking, and access, get handled alongside rights of light assessments for surrounding buildings.
Airspace projects in Colchester typically 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 completion.
The Schedule records each flat's condition before work begins, so any damage claim can be checked against documented evidence. The point of contact arrangement means residents have one named surveyor rather than a developer's site office. Planning sits with Colchester City Council, which reviews airspace proposals on design, height, and amenity grounds. A free initial assessment covers how all of this fits together on a specific site.
