Dense urban airspace work is where most of our specialist chartered surveying sits. We cover Kensington and Chelsea from our London office, with the practice RICS regulated and over 30 years of combined residential extension and rooftop experience. Airspace development advice covers feasibility before any application is prepared given the heavy heritage layer in this borough.
Day-to-day issues, scaffolding placement on narrow Kensington streets, deliveries, parking, access, and noise, get handled as they arise. Construction logistics need particularly careful planning given the borough's pedestrian density and transport networks. Daylight and sunlight reports almost always accompany the planning submission given the tight plot density.
Airspace work in Kensington and Chelsea 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 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 construction. Planning sits with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which operates one of the strictest planning regimes in London. Rights of light assessments sit outside the planning process but often run in parallel where height affects surrounding properties.
