CHP Surveyors has been established since 2004 and operates from Wickford, London and Hampshire. The team is RICS regulated. From Wickford we reach Colchester within 45 minutes via the A12, covering Lexden, Mile End, Stanway, Wivenhoe, Marks Tey and Tiptree in the same trip. Where commercial schemes include rooftop or air rights work, we coordinate airspace development advice in the same instruction.
From there the surveyor drafts and serves the notices, manages adjoining owner responses, and produces the schedule of condition with photographs and detailed written notes. Where the matter is agreed, paperwork is proportionate. Where dispute arises the party wall award is prepared and served properly. Calls stay with the named surveyor running the file from first contact to final award. Building owners and adjoining owners across the Colchester City Council area get continuity throughout the process, with no handover between team members.
Notice periods under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 are non-negotiable: two months for party structure works and one month for excavations within the relevant proximity thresholds. The building owner generally covers reasonable surveyor fees on both sides, including those of the adjoining owner's surveyor where appointed. For Colchester projects in conservation areas, where planning conditions add their own timing constraints, an early free initial assessment reduces risk on both sides.
