Listed buildings
Raine, Douglas
Listed buildings - 2005 - Solicitors' Journal 149 (36) 23 September 2005, 1106 (1) .
Provides some practical advice for those advising purchasers of listed property. Where the purchaser is intending to make alterations that will require listed building consent, it is vital for the architect or surveyor to carry out the condition survey, to demonstrate that they understand the building. The purchaser must be made aware that there is considerable scope for professional disagreement over whether what is proposed is in sympathy with the property, and that the regulatory and appeals system can lead to considerable delay.
Listed buildings - 2005 - Solicitors' Journal 149 (36) 23 September 2005, 1106 (1) .
Provides some practical advice for those advising purchasers of listed property. Where the purchaser is intending to make alterations that will require listed building consent, it is vital for the architect or surveyor to carry out the condition survey, to demonstrate that they understand the building. The purchaser must be made aware that there is considerable scope for professional disagreement over whether what is proposed is in sympathy with the property, and that the regulatory and appeals system can lead to considerable delay.