De Jager Consulting

Maidenhead Planning is a building surveying and architectural
practice based in Maidenhead. Alongside our design services, we
also offer the following building surveying services:

Party Wall Agreements and Awards

When you are building onto a boundary line, building a new party
wall or doing any work to a party wall, then a party wall
agreement is required. Common projects that involve the Party
Wall etc Act 1996 are:

Extensions to the back or front where you are building up to the
boundary.
If building within 3 or 6 metres of another building and your
foundations are likely to be LOWER than the existing building
Loft conversions where a ridge beam or floor beams are being
installed to the party wall.
These are just a few examples but there are many more. Luckily
there is legislation that covers this, namely the Party Wall etc
Act, 1996. Which states that you must tell your neighbours if you
want to carry out any building work near or on your shared
property boundary, or 'party wall', in England and Wales.

This is an ENABLING act, so it gives you the right to build to a
party wall or do works to it if you follow the Act’s
procedures. It also protects you and your neighbour against
common law civil cases costing thousands to litigate.

Get in contact to see how we can help make use of this Act for
your building project, or if your neighbour is building and you
want to know where you stand in terms of the Act, we can help.

We can act as your agent serving notices to all relevant parties
as well as act as the agreed surveyor or one of two surveyors if
a dispute arises. Feel free to contact us to see if this affects
you.

RICS Condition Surveys

RICS accredited condition surveys can be undertaken on any
property in order to help ascertain its current state of repair,
or highlight any potential problems that may arise. These reports
can be produced for commercial or residential properties. Our
surveyors have decades of experience in this field, so you should
feel assured that your report will be thorough and to the point.
Telling you exactly what you need to know in easy to understand
language and format.

Structural Surveys and Designs

If you are in doubt about the structural integrity of any
building, or you wish to have a structural wall removed, or even
just find our whether a wall is structural in the first place,
then please get in touch. We have a fast turnaround from query
through to site visit in order to help you along the way. Knowing
early the structural implications of any planned works will help
immensely with the design and avoid wasted time spent on designs
that would push the project outside of your budget.

SAP Calculations

SAP calculations are a Building Regulations requirement for all
new houses & conversions and some extensions. The Standard
Assessment Procedure (SAP) is a measure of the energy efficiency
of a property and must be carried out by an accredited company)
We can undertake this for you, we merely ask for your set of
drawings and we can undertake the SAP assessment and send the
report out within 5-10 working days. If the assessment fails
advice will be given in order to gain approval

Approved Inspector Services

In order to gain a completion certificate for your build, the
works need to be inspected by an approved inspector or a local
authority building control officer. Maidenhead Planning can
manage this process for you in order to gain the completion
certificate through the use of approved inspectors. This offers
an alternative to the local authority route. Contact us to see
how we can help

Client Representative and Project Management Services

This service has been borne out of client’s requesting that we
act as their representative in the build process. People are
surprised by the amount of decisions that need to be made, the
implications of those decisions as well as the time needed to
manage the development. You may already have an architect,
project manager and builder in place, and you may need someone to
help you lessen the load and stand beside you guiding you through
the process. As your representative we have no other vested
interest except the success of the project. So if you would like
to take advantage of this service, please contact us.