Compliance and Surveying Services

Core Compliance helps you meet your legal duties on your building or project by managing statutory matters, helping you avoid enforcement, fines, and disputes.

Yes, CDM Regulations apply to almost all construction work, including small domestic projects, to ensure health and safety matters are properly managed and coordinated.

Yes, the Building Safety Act creates client duties on almost all construction works, including small domestic projects, especially regarding safety and accountability.

Yes, for almost all projects you must appoint a Principal Designer to ensure compliance with the building regulations.

A High Risk Building (HRB) is typically a building over 18 metres or 7 storeys, and requires strict safety oversight under the Building Safety Act.

You must serve notice if you are building on a boundary, working on a party wall, or excavating near a neighbouring structure.

Review it carefully and seek advice if unsure of the risk to your property. You must then respond to consent (agree) or dissent (disagree).

You should check your title plans and deeds to ascertain where the boundary is likely to be. If this is inconclusive then you may need a surveyor's opinion.

Seek permission from your neighbour and enter into an access licence. If they refuse, you may apply for certain access rights under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act.

You could face a fine, be required to fix the work, or face legal action. In some cases you may even be forced to demolish and redo unsafe work.