Regulation 4 puts a legal duty on whoever controls non-domestic premises: offices, shops, workshops and the communal parts of residential blocks. In a borough where most stock pre-dates 2000, “we’ve never had a survey” is a live liability.
Our management survey locates and condition-scores every accessible suspect material, samples where identification matters, and delivers a navigable register: locations, photographs, risk scores and a plain-English management plan.
Suitable for occupied buildings; non-intrusive by design
Annual reinspection programme to keep the register current
From scoping around how the building actually works to delivering a register your contractors can open and act on; five working days, fixed fee.
We map the survey to how the building actually works: occupied areas, plant rooms, risers, communal parts, and agree access with minimal disruption.
Every accessible area inspected and photographed; presumed and sampled materials logged with location and condition scores.
Samples analysed independently; certificates appended so the register stands up to insurer, HSE or contractor scrutiny.
The report lands within five working days: register, priority assessments, management plan, and the reinspection schedule that keeps you continuously compliant.
Site managers and contractors, not just auditors.
Leasehold, RTM and managing-agent structures navigated daily.
Reinspection reminders and updates rather than a PDF that ages quietly.
Where action items exist, fixed quotes follow without a second survey fee.
FAQS
If the building pre-dates 2000 and you control any of it, yes; Regulation 4 doesn’t have a small-business exemption. The proportionate response for a modest unit is a modest survey; the duty is about knowing and managing, not gold-plating.
The individual flats are domestic and outside the duty; the communal areas, hallways, stair cores, meter cupboards, roof voids and boiler rooms, are firmly inside it. That’s precisely where era-typical materials sit, and it’s the survey block managers most commonly lack.
Every identified or presumed material with location, photograph, extent, condition and risk scores, lab certificates for sampled items, and a management plan stating what to monitor, what to label, and what (if anything) to remove. Plus reinspection dates, because a register is a living document.
The duty requires the plan to be kept up to date; annual reinspection is the accepted standard, with earlier review if materials are damaged or works are planned. Our reinspection programme handles the diary so compliance doesn’t depend on anyone remembering.
Entirely right, and increasingly common. You’re legally required to provide information on asbestos to anyone liable to disturb it. If you’re facing that standoff now, tell us the contractor’s start date; fast-turnaround surveys for exactly this situation are routine work.
The register scores them and the plan says what to do; which is sometimes urgent removal but more often protection, labelling and monitoring. Where removal is warranted, a fixed written price follows within 48 hours and the works update the register on completion.
Most single commercial units and communal-area surveys complete in hours, not days; scheduled around your tenants or trading hours so the building barely notices. Larger or multi-building instructions get a stated programme up front.
Per building against a consistent scope, assembled into one programme figure; so a managing agent sees exactly what each asset costs and the whole portfolio lands on one reporting standard and one reinspection calendar.
Yes; offices and shops in the centre, converted blocks in SE19 and SE25, units on Purley Way and everything between, plus bordering premises under the same duty.
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Send us your postcode and a description of the material you’ve found. A surveyor will be with you the same week, and your fixed written price follows within 48 hours.
