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 Uttlesford District Council, particularly for any scheme close to a conservation area boundary.
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 alongside party wall services on the building itself.
Airspace work in Saffron Walden 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.
Some upward extensions on detached and semi-detached houses can proceed under permitted development with prior approval. Rooftop additions to blocks of flats almost always need a full planning application. Right of light is a separate common law matter from planning, and airspace development advice covers feasibility and the most likely planning route before a submission is prepared.
