Party Wall
Party wall issues resolved professionally before they escalate into disputes.
What this service covers
The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 governs work that affects a shared wall, an adjoining owner's property or an excavation close to a neighbour's foundations. Notices have to be served correctly, timeframes have to be respected, and if adjoining owners dissent the surveyor process has to be followed properly. We act for building owners and adjoining owners across West Sussex.
As a building-owner's surveyor we prepare and serve notices, negotiate consent where possible, and prepare party wall awards where the neighbour dissents. As an adjoining-owner's surveyor we protect the neighbour's position — schedules of condition, monitoring during the works, and remedial provisions in the award if damage occurs.
We are members of the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors and work to the RICS professional standard for party wall matters. Most of our party wall instructions concern extensions, basements and loft conversions in the terraced streets of Worthing, Brighton-and-Hove edge boroughs, and the inland conservation villages, though we advise on commercial party wall work too.
Typical deliverables
- Party wall notices (Sections 1, 3 or 6)
- Schedules of condition
- Party wall awards
- Third surveyor referral if required
- Post-completion inspection and settlement
When to call us
As soon as party wall notifiable works are contemplated — well before the planned start date.
Party Wall across West Sussex.
We provide party wall services across West Sussex from our Worthing office. Our work spans the coast, the market towns and Mid Sussex — we travel to sites and meetings across the county.
Other services from CSQS Ltd.
RICS Level 2 Homebuyer Survey
The mid-level RICS home survey for conventional houses and flats in reasonable condition, carried out to the RICS Home Survey Standard.
RICS Level 3 Building Survey
The most detailed RICS home survey, for older, larger, altered, listed or non-standard properties — a full analysis of construction and condition.
Preconstruction & Feasibility
Order-of-cost, feasibility and viability advice before you commit to a scheme.
Cost Planning & Quantity Surveying
Elemental cost plans, bills of quantities and pricing schedules aligned to RICS NRM1 and NRM2.
Talk to us about your project
We reply to emails quickly, and we meet in person across West Sussex — Worthing, Chichester, Horsham, Crawley and everywhere between.
Whether you have a scheme at feasibility, a project going out to tender, a contract that needs administering or a dispute that has already started, the first conversation is free and useful.