Our London office at 2-6 Boundary Row in Southwark covers the whole capital. 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, including party wall services that almost always accompany the airspace work itself.
On homeowner-led upward extensions, the focus shifts to the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, neighbour relations, rights of light risk on adjoining homes, and protection of the existing structure. Notices are served on every adjoining owner where a party wall is involved. Daylight and sunlight reports almost always accompany rooftop applications given the impact of new height on surrounding residential windows.
Airspace work across London 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.
Strategic planning policy across London sits with the Greater London Authority, but planning decisions on individual airspace schemes are taken by the 33 borough-level planning authorities. These include the London Borough councils of Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, and Wandsworth, alongside the Royal Boroughs of Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, and Richmond upon Thames, plus the City of London Corporation and Westminster City Council. Rights of light assessments run in parallel. A free initial assessment covers feasibility on a specific site.
