
Callum joined us in 2020 as an Assistant Surveyor after enrolling on the SAVA Diploma in Residential Surveying and Valuation. He worked predominantly on Party Wall matters and became qualified as a member of the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors in May 2022.
Callum also assisted on Home Surveys and Valuations during his time as an Assistant before completing the SAVA Diploma and joining the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors at the end of 2023 with AssocRICS status. He now acts as a surveyor on these job types and is keen to expand his knowledge and practice into housing disrepair in 2024 and beyond.
Outside of work he spends time focussing on his studies and occasionally watching sports such as boxing and football.
In the previous post, I looked at which owners should be notified of works directly affecting a party structure (under section 2) when the adjoining property is divided into flats. This post will cover the other two types of work that fall within the scope of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 (the ‘Act’) from the same point of ... Read More >>
Once a building owner has established the layout and demise of the flats within an adjoining building, the next step is to work out how they are affected by the proposed works. It’s best to consider this in 2 parts by asking: What is the extent of the party structure that divides the building owner’s and adjoining ... Read More >>
Section 20 of the Act defines an owner, amongst other things, as ‘a person in possession of land, otherwise than as a mortgagee or as a tenant from year to year or for a lesser term or as a tenant at will’. As it makes no distinction between the various types of ‘ownership’ (only that the remaining term must be greater ... Read More >>