The practice is RICS regulated and our surveyors carry over 30 years of combined experience. Larger schemes typically need airspace development advice on feasibility, structural capacity, and the planning route before an application is prepared.
Where a developer is adding flats above an existing residential block, the existing occupants liaison role takes centre stage. We make initial contact with each leaseholder, attend 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. Day-to-day issues, scaffolding, deliveries, parking, access, get handled as they arise, with daylight and sunlight reports typically forming part of the planning submission.
Airspace work in Rochford 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 completion.
Planning sits with Rochford District Council, which reviews airspace proposals on design, height, neighbour amenity, parking, and area character. Some upward extensions fall within permitted development rights with prior approval, while larger rooftop schemes need a full application. Rights of light assessments sit outside the planning process but often run in parallel where height affects surrounding properties.
