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Explore helpful articles, practical guidance and expert insights across our specialist services. Our resources help you understand key issues, make informed decisions and move your project forward.

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Rights to Light

Explore practical guidance on rights to light, including risk assessment, design advice, neighbour negotiations and claim resolution.

Rights to Light Fact Sheet

This Right to Light fact sheet is intended to provide a basic guide and explanation to those unfamiliar with the subject

Rights to Light

What Are Rights to Light? A Complete Guide

If you own, develop, or manage property in England and Wales, you may have asked the question: what are rights to light and how do they affect me?

Rights to Light

What is a Light Obstruction Notice?

At Anstey Horne we often advise clients on how to register Light Obstruction Notices to protect the development potential of a site but what is a Light Obstruction Notice?

Rights to Light

What Is a Daylight and Sunlight Assessment?

What Is a Daylight and Sunlight Assessment? When planning new buildings in the UK, one critical factor that developers, architects, and planners must consider is how the proposed development affects daylight and sunlight.

Rights to Light
Daylight Sunlight Assessment
Daylight & Sunlight

Internal Daylight & Sunlight Assessments: A Complete Guide

Internal daylight and sunlight assessments are a critical component of building design and planning, ensuring that proposed developments provide adequate natural light to occupiers while safeguarding existing conditions in neighbouring buildings.

Rights to Light
Daylight Sunlight Assessment
Daylight & Sunlight

Daylight & Sunlight Glossary: VSC, NSL, APSH and Key Terms

If you’re preparing, reviewing or defending a planning submission, having a clear daylight and sunlight glossary saves time, avoids misunderstandings and helps everyone talk the same language.

Rights to Light
Daylight & Sunlight

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Party Wall

Find clear information on the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, notices, surveyor appointments, awards and the responsibilities of building and adjoining owners.

What is the Party Wall Act? A Complete Guide for Property Owners

The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 (“the Act”) is a cornerstone of property law in England and Wales that governs works affecting shared structures and boundaries between properties.

Party Wall

Serving a Party Wall Notice: A Complete Guide

If you're planning construction work that affects a shared wall or structure with your neighbour, serving a Party Wall Notice is not only a legal requirement in many cases, but also a crucial step in avoiding costly disputes.

Party Wall Notice

Party Wall Agreement: A Complete Guide for Property Owners

A Party Wall agreement records how building work covered by the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 can proceed.

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall Schedule of Condition

If you're planning on carrying out work on a party wall, then you should have a schedule of condition recorded before work starts. But what exactly is a schedule of condition, and why is it important?

Party Wall Notice
Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall Fact Sheet

This Party Wall Fact Sheet sets out guidance on what a Party Wall Award means as well as building and adjoining owners rights and respondibilities under the Act

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall FAQs

If you plan building work close to a boundary or on a shared wall, Party Wall FAQs usually top your search list.

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall Glossary

The language used in the Party Wall Act is hard to understand. This Party Wall Glossary is intended to help with some of the main terms.

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall Basics

If you're a property owner in the UK planning to undertake construction work on or near a shared boundary, it's essential to be familiar with the basics of the Party Wall Act.

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall Excavation Notice

Are you planning to do some excavation work on your property? Do you share a wall with your neighbour? If so, you may need to issue a party wall excavation notice.

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Building Owner Party Wall Advice

The Building Owner is an owner who wishes to undertake building works under the Party Wall Act, and has a duty to notify Adjoining Owners.

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

Party Wall Adjoining Owner Advice

Party Wall Adjoining Owner Advice - An Adjoining Owner is a neighbour to a Building Owner undertaking notifiable works and entitled to receive a notice under the Party Wall Act

Party Wall & Neighbourly Matters

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Building Consultancy

Access expert guidance on building condition, defects, dilapidations, refurbishment, maintenance and the effective management of property projects.

What are Dilapidations? A Complete Guide for Tenants and Landlords

If you're leasing or renting a property—whether commercial or residential—you may have come across the term "dilapidations".

Dilapidations

Dilapidations Fact Sheet

Our Dilapidations Fact Sheet sets out guidance on dilapidations claims and how to manage them for both landlords and tenants.

Dilapidations

Dilapidation Guide for Landlords: Everything You Need to Know

cThis Dilapidation Guide for Landlords is designed to help property owners navigate the complex legal, technical, and practical aspects of dilapidations claims, protecting their investments while avoiding common pitfalls.

Dilapidations

The Complete Tenant Dilapidations Guide

If you only read one tenant dilapidations guide before lease-end, make it this one. This in-depth article explains what dilapidations are, how claims are built, the legal caps that protect tenants, and the practical steps to cut risk and cost.

Dilapidations

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Fire Consultancy

Explore practical information on fire risk, external walls, cladding, fire safety assessments and compliance with current building safety requirements.

EWS1 Fact Sheet

This EWS1 Fact Sheet gives you all you need to know about EWS1 Surveys and Inspections of External Cladding

Fire Consultancy

EWS1 FAQs

Our EWS1 Survey FAQs are a selection of questions we are frequently asked about the EWS1 process.

Fire Consultancy

EWS1 Form : Understanding the Process

The EWS1 form, or External Wall Survey form, is a crucial document introduced to assess the fire safety of external wall systems on residential buildings.

Fire Consultancy

FRAEW FAQs for Responsible Persons & Managing Agents

If you act as a Responsible Person or managing agent for residential blocks in England, this FAQ distils your most common FRAEW FAQs into clear, practical answers.

Fire Consultancy

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