Our team works across Braintree, Bocking, Cressing, Halstead, and the wider district from our Essex base, with RICS-regulated reports prepared in line with BRE 209 (2022). Local site attendance runs faster than for London-led practices covering the district, and the broader practice has been delivering daylight and sunlight reports for residential and mixed-use schemes across the East of England since 2004.
Overshadowing on amenity space is tested using the 21 March sun position recommended in the guidance. Sunpath diagrams cover seasonal access where these add useful evidence. Trees within the impact zone are factored in, with the report flagging where retention or removal materially changes the outcome for the proposed scheme.
A typical turnaround is 2 to 3 weeks from instruction. Calls are answered by a qualified surveyor rather than a call centre, and a free initial assessment confirms scope before anything is committed. This is a bespoke surveying service shaped to each scheme.
BRE 209 sets reference values, not legal thresholds, and shortfalls can be justified where the context supports the design. Reports are turned around in 2 to 3 weeks. For sites where work also crosses a shared boundary, party wall services sit alongside the planning piece, both run by the same team. The free initial assessment runs through scope and answers the early questions before any fee is set.
