Top tips for a Honor Oak Park Home Buyers Survey
Honor Oak Park in southeast London with large semi-detached houses, along with many double-fronted five- and six-bedroom Edwardian houses, many in Wood Vale and in the "Crimean Corner" — roads named after locations significant in the Crimean war, including Marmora, Mundania and Therapia Roads, off Forest Hill Road.
There are also a group of self-build houses in Walters Way and a new development in nearby Catford Green, offering more than 600 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments overlooking Ladywell Fields, with some flats being sold under shared ownership terms.
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All properties in Honor Oak Park, including in streets such as Boveney Road and Codrington Hill, are in an area which is subject to flood alerts from time to time. If you are concerned that a property you are looking to buy is in a flood risk area, you should consider getting a flood risk report (click for more details). | Properties in some areas of Honor Oak are built in designated smoke control areas. A recent local authority search done for a dwelling in Queenswood Road, SE23 2QS noted that the property was in such a smoke control area. Under the terms of Section 20 of the Clean Air Act 1993, smoke emissions from all buildings are prohibited unless an exemption has been made by the Secretary of State under Section 21 of the Act. | Properties in various parts of Honor Oak, including streets such as Queenswood Road and Holland Drive may well be affected by the Transport for London schemes. If you are buying a property in the area and this is of concern to you, you may well wish to consider purchasing an Energy & Infrastructure Report. or a report specific to either of the two rail schemes mentioned. |
Greater London is an area which contains London, the capital of the United Kingdom (which itself centres on the Cities of London and Westminster) and a number of surrounding boroughs which are administered as London boroughs and which are the overall executive responsibility of the Mayor of London. It contains a large number of constituencies, each represented by an MP and it should be noted that these are not the same as nor even always continguous with the borders of the boroughs.Many parts of Greater London were originally administered by the counties which surround London and these counties are often called the home counties. Enfield, for example, used to be classed as being part of Middlesex, but is now near the northern border of Greater London. Greater London's borders often coincide with a zone of 'green belt': areas where it has been decided that open spaces, parks, forests and wildlife reserves should act as a buffer against urban sprawl. London has numerous landmarks, anything from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament to Karl Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery.
Greater London contains more than 9 million inhabitants, a number growing daily, and as this is approximately 1/7 of the population of the UK, it can be seen that Greater Londoners have a large influence on the rest of the country politically and this is enhanced by the concentration of skilled workers gravitating towards the capital.
Listed Building Survey Honor Oak Park
We have local RICS Listed Building Surveyors who specialise in listed building surveys in Honor Oak Park. To find out more go to - Listed Building Surveys - Building Surveyor and Survey Cost in Honor Oak Park
Building Survey Honor Oak Park Planning
You can review what planning applications have been granted or denied for properties in your area by contacting London Borough of Lewisham at Laurence House 1 Catford Road SE6 4RU, telephone 020 8314 6000, or you can check the local authority website.
Read the following article if you are thinking about building an extension .
Local Building Survey Honor Oak Park
Our Building Surveyors specialise in the local area and have completed house surveys in Crofton Park, Forest Hill, Brockley, Peckham, Lewisham, Greenwich and Catford.
We employ only expert RICS Building Surveyors to undertake Home Buyers Surveys in Honor Oak Park. Whether you are buying an old run down 'doer upper' or standard construction freehold house, our RICS surveyors have seen them all.
With a vast number of years of experience completing building surveys on properties in Honor Oak Park we'll be able to give you the detailed Honor Oak Park HomeBuyers report that you will need to know and what defects there are with your property.
Home Buyers Survey Honor Oak Park
Recently completed HomeBuyer Reports and Building Surveys near you:
- Carholme Road, London, SE23 2HS
- 56 Stanstead Road, London, SE23 1BW
- 38 Shipman Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 2DU
- 8 Aylward Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 2JE
- 8 Aylward Rd, Forest Hill, London SE23 2JE
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Our Building Surveyor uses their local knowledge of Honor Oak Park to ensure they deliver a detailed homebuyers report to help you decide whether you should move forward with your home move or if you should pull out.
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We normally have availability within days of you booking and our turnaround for homebuyers survey reports is within 5 working days.
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Ranging from 10 to 40 years all of our chartered RICS Surveyors are registered with and regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and have indemnity insurance that covers all of the work they undertake in a Home Buyers Survey in Honor Oak Park.
Home Buyers Survey - What does it cover?
A RICS Home Buyers Survey, whether a Building Survey (which used to be known as a Full Structural Survey) or a HomeBuyers Report, non-intrusively inspects both the external and internal structure of a property for matters which include these, among others; damp, subsidence, infestations, cracks and damage.
If you are thinking of buying a property in Honor Oak Park, it is vitally important to book a Home Buyers Survey for your peace of mind.
NB If you're a first time buyer, you might wish to click on What is a House Survey to find out more, including what happens during the inspection.
Click to find out how much does a house survey cost (free, no obligation quote)
If the Home Buyers Survey shows up any such problems, our appointed surveyor will explain to you what you should do to get more in-depth information about the type and scope of the matter and what is required to fix it.
If you are worried about any defects that you think your property in Honor Oak Park has, we strongly recommend you get a Home Buyers Survey as the cost of remedying the problem might grow to many thousands of pounds as time progresses.
You can find a local RICS surveyor by using the search at the bottom RHS of this page.
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Does your surveyor check your electrics?
Your RICS surveyor will switch lights in a room on and off to see if the electrical supply is connected while carrying out their inspection for your RICS Home Buyers Survey.
However, they won't carry out any in-depth inspection of the electrical supply or check the wiring for example: this is beyond their scope of work.
Their primary focus is on detecting signs and suspicions of major property defects such as subsidence and rising damp.
Their primary focus is on detecting signs and suspicions of major property defects such as subsidence and rising damp.
That said, invariably they can recommend a trusted local electrical tradesperson if you ask them to.
Does your property look like this?
Asbestos prohibition laws in the United Kingdom were first introduced in the mid-1980s.
In 1985, the UK banned the import and use of blue (crocidolite) and brown (amosite) asbestos.>
This means if your property was built 1980's and older, it could contain asbestos.
Both a Level 3: Building Survey and the Level 2: HomeBuyer Report will flag signs of asbestos, however if you know there is asbestos then you should go straight for getting an Asbestos Survey.
This survey will test the suspect material, whereas a RICS surveyor does not test during their inspection.
In 1985, the UK banned the import and use of blue (crocidolite) and brown (amosite) asbestos.>
This means if your property was built 1980's and older, it could contain asbestos.
Both a Level 3: Building Survey and the Level 2: HomeBuyer Report will flag signs of asbestos, however if you know there is asbestos then you should go straight for getting an Asbestos Survey.
This survey will test the suspect material, whereas a RICS surveyor does not test during their inspection.
Does your property look different to this? Then read our guide on which survey suits your property type.
Choose which survey based on its type, style and age then get a competitively priced Home Buyers Survey Honor Oak Park quote.
