Whether you are a landlord or tenant of commercial or residential property, dilapidations are a critical issue, which is often neglected - especially in today’s economic climate. calfordseaden provide a full dilapidations consultancy service underpinned by our indepth knowledge of this complex specialism.

A Right to Light is a right (or easement), which the owner of one property has over another. The right is also intended to prevent a property owner from doing anything that would damage the Right to Light of another.

Following the issue of the updated British Standard 8206-2:2008, the BRE will soon be issuing their updated report BRE209 'Site layout planning for daylight and sunlight: A guide to good practice'.

We have been successful over the last few years in developing a substantial track record in the procurement and management of both routine and complex fit outs and space alterations for a number of Tenants within the office sector.

Specialist Chartered Surveyors have been providing advice in connection with Party Wall Matters across all calfordseaden’s offices for many years, both under the Party Wall etc Act 1996 and, historically, in relation to the London Building Acts.

Our surveying teams provide a comprehensive project and development monitoring service to Clients including banks and other financial institutions and for Tenants who will occupy a building on completion but who are not a contractual party to its construction or refurbishment.

The commercial building surveying expertise within the Practice stems from 1993 when Geoff Clark and Terry Bartholomew joined the firm to develop and expand the services offered by the Practice. Today, we offer the full range of services from our four UK offices.

Since the introduction of the Grant for Developer Funding NAHP (National Affordable Housing Programme) in 2006, and the HCA’s decision to allow RICS Surveyors to carry out the procedural compliance audit function in 2008, calfordseaden have been involved in providing consultancy advice to several large house builders, developers and registered social landlords relating to their NAHP funded developments.

The Practice has been succesful in securing and delivering a number of Planned Maintenance Surveys on Property Portfolios for Public and Private Sector Clients alike and have developed bespoke software tailored to Client's particular requirements to enable data to be captured and interpreted in an agreed format.

Our experts undertake the necessary to establish whether a Right to Light exists and carry out measured surveys and an analysis of the effect to a Right to Light and levels of Sunlight and Daylight. They can also advise on possible cause of action, scale of development, changes to development proposals, possible levels of compensation etcetera.

Since the introduction of the Grants for Developer Funding NAHP (National Affordable Housing Programme) in 2006, calfordseaden have been involved in providing consultancy advice to several large house builders, developers and registered social landlords relating to their applications for partner status through to management of successful Bids.