
Phillipa is a Chartered Building Surveyor with a decade of professional experience across the residential and commercial property sectors. She earned an MSc in Building Surveying with Distinction from London Southbank University and became Chartered in 2019.
She specialises in RICS Home Surveys and also undertakes schedules of condition, condition reports, and planned maintenance programmes, providing clients with thorough and professional advice.
In addition, Phillipa is ‘asbestos aware’, having completed the UK Asbestos Training Association (UKATA) Category A course, ensuring she works safely and in compliance with industry standards.
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 >>