Our Essex team prepares these reports under RICS regulation from our Wickford office, with BRE 209 (2022) as the working reference. Site attendance across the Braintree district runs faster than for London-led practices, and where works also cross a shared boundary, party wall services sit alongside the daylight piece. For larger developments engaging neighbour legal entitlements, rights of light assessments sit alongside the planning piece.
Overshadowing analysis on ground-level amenity tests the 21 March sun position recommended in the guidance. Sunpath studies cover seasonal access where these add useful evidence. Trees within the impact zone are factored in, with retention or removal flagged where it changes the outcome of the assessment.
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 sets out scope before any fee is committed. This is a bespoke surveying service shaped to each scheme.
The 2 to 3 week turnaround means the report fits within most planning programmes without slowing submission. Reports follow BRE 209 (2022), and the free initial assessment runs through scope before any fee is set, so an early read on whether a full study is needed costs nothing to obtain at this stage.
