Tweet For those in London [and elsewhere] an absolutely brilliant piece about the Hammersmith Flyover, some people just have an ability to explain complicated structural details in a way that’s easy to understand.  “What’s wrong with the Hammersmith Flyover”

Tweet The RICS are consulting for new Information Paper which aims to help valuers and consider the implications of Japanese Knotweed – an invasive plant feared for its damaging effects and ability to grow through masonry, concrete and we suspect kryptonite.

Tweet “MP condemns Basement Conversions” a short article about a debate in the commons last week moaning about basement conversions and developments, looked a bit insubstantial and despite their statements to the contrary a little nimby and a little bit xenophobic to us!!  Here’s MP Karen Bucks comments and here [...]

Tweet Collier Stevens, Chartered Surveyors were appointed by Hythe Town Council to design and oversee the reinstatement of footpaths to the Oaklands public open space in Hythe, Kent.

Tweet If you are having difficulty contacting us to day then that is probably because of the  [thieving b4st4ards who muck up our businesses] scoundrels who have nicked a whole bundle of underground copper cabling causing BT outages, it’s affected our phones and our email.  We’ve put some temporary fixes [...]

Tweet The latest edition of the twice yearly “Exchanged” magazine for home buyers from the RICS is now available, free copies are available form Collier Stevens – just call us and ask!  There is also an associated website here.

Tweet We need an Angel in the Office type admin support person to assist our current admin team and chartered surveyors, the work will include answering the phone and dealing with queries, filing, entering client data, booking in building surveys, a bit of photo copying, ordering stationary and all the [...]

Tweet This week all of our surveyors have been busy – hooray!  Although it’s holiday time and mean’t to be quiet we managed to do a building survey on 4 houses this week as well as prepare 3 schedules of condition for Party Wall Awards, survey a roof, get a [...]

Tweet Collier Stevens, Chartered Surveyors have always provided free party wall notice templates for you to download and use, during our website update though it would seem that he links were broken and we missed them until last week when one of our visitors took the time to let us [...]

Tweet As a firm of Independent Chartered Building Surveyors we have long been members of the Independent Surveyors Association – a group representing members who are either partners or sole practitioners who run their own practices and are not owned by financial or corporate institutions.  It provides us with a [...]