Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
While the current social distance regulations remain in place, surveyors are under pressure to spend as little time inside occupied properties as possible. One way of doing that is to rely upon a photographic only schedule of condition instead of the traditional written record but can it ever be as useful? Prior to the pandemic the primary document in a schedule of condition was the written ...
While the current social distance regulations remain in place, surveyors are under pressure to spend as little time inside ...
An amendment to the General Permitted Development Order which allows property owners to add up to 2 further storeys to their ...
A recent survey found that almost three in five (59%) said that after lockdowns lift, they would like to work from home some ...
Section 10(12) of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 confirms that an award may cover the ‘time and manner of executing any ...
Even if the Covid-19 restrictions start to be eased later this month, the 1.5 million people designated as ‘clinically ...
The Government has confirmed that building work may continue during the current lockdown so long as the temporary Site ...
We're all having to adapt to a new way of working and we've been endeavouring to keep things ticking over while observing Government guidance. Surveyors are in a slightly unusual position in that much of our work, such as report writing etc., can easily be done from home whereas property inspections obviously cannot. We've been practising social distancing during appointments for a couple of ...
We're all having to adapt to a new way of working and we've been endeavouring to keep things ticking over while observing ...
Here at Peter Barry, we have been very aware of our obligations to our clients, staff and the Country given that our job ...
Until recently it was a general rule of thumb that the owner benefiting from the works that are the subject of party wall ...
Here at Peter Barry, we serve hundreds of notices in any given year. Once a neighbour receives a notice they are a range of ...