Party wall surveyor in Croydon

Party wall work across Croydon

The north of the borough is terraced streets. Selhurst, Thornton Heath, South Norwood, Norbury and Broad Green filled up with Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and those houses now take rear dormers, side-return extensions and chimney breast removals street by street.

Further south, Shirley, Selsdon, Sanderstead and Coulsdon grew mostly between the wars. Their semis and detached houses take hip-to-gable lofts, wraparound extensions and garage conversions, which bring in the party wall where they share a gable, and section 6 where new footings come close to next door. Upper Norwood and parts of Addiscombe add large Victorian villas, many of them now flats.

Places we cover in Croydon

• SelhurstSE25 · CR0
• South NorwoodSE25
• Thornton HeathCR7
• NorburySW16
• Upper NorwoodSE19
• AddiscombeCR0
• ShirleyCR0
• Broad GreenCR0
• WaddonCR0
• South CroydonCR2
• SandersteadCR2
• SelsdonCR2
• PurleyCR8
• KenleyCR8
• CoulsdonCR5
• New AddingtonCR0

Local things that affect party wall work

• The ground changes across the borough. The north sits on London Clay, rising towards the Norwood Ridge and Crystal Palace. Around Purley, Kenley and Coulsdon you are onto the chalk of the North Downs. Clay moves with the seasons, so we measure existing cracks carefully, and we always read the engineer's foundation design.
• Flats. Many bigger houses in Upper Norwood, South Norwood and Thornton Heath are now split into flats, which brings party floors and freeholders into the picture.
• The council's role. Croydon Council handles planning and building control, not party wall matters.

Why a Croydon surveyor helps

Selhurst is in the middle of the borough's terraced north, and the rest of Croydon is a short drive or bus ride away. That makes it easy to fit schedules of condition and site visits around you and your neighbours, rather than around a long drive across London.