The practice is RICS regulated and our surveyors carry over 30 years of combined experience. Daylight and sunlight reports typically accompany the planning submission to Tendring District Council, particularly for schemes near the conservation areas in the old town.
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. Practical issues, scaffolding, deliveries, parking, access, get resolved as they arise, with airspace development advice covering the wider planning and feasibility picture.
Airspace work in Harwich 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.
Leaseholders also retain their statutory rights to quiet enjoyment and protection from damage, and the occupant liaison surveyor gives them one named person to raise concerns with throughout the build. Planning sits with Tendring District Council, which reviews airspace proposals on amenity, design, character, and neighbour impact grounds, with conservation area considerations weighing in for parts of the old town. A free initial assessment covers the likely route, and party wall services normally run alongside on the construction itself.
