Building surveys, dilapidations, water compliance and capital works. For commercial property, schools, residential and heritage buildings — across Chichester, Worthing, Crawley and the wider county.
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We act for owners, occupiers, trustees and professional advisers across four core sectors. A single retainer can run all four, or one matter at a time — whatever suits the brief.
Pre-acquisition surveys, dilapidations, Section 18 and capital works for landlords, investors and tenants.
View sector →Compliance SLAs, condition surveys, Legionella and capital programmes — for primaries, secondaries and trusts.
View sector →RICS HomeBuyer (Level 2), full building surveys (Level 3), party wall and defect investigation.
View sector →Quinquennial inspections, conservation works and trustee advisory on grade I, II* and II listed property.
View sector →Three current matters from across the practice. Names and figures are amended for client confidentiality. Full references available on request, with the client's prior consent.
Tenant-side defence at the end of a 15-year FRI lease on a 2,400 sq ft unit. Settled at 71% below the landlord's initial schedule, without recourse to a Section 18.
Read case note →Five-yearly architectural inspection of a Grade II listed parish church, with prioritised repair schedule for the parochial council and the diocese.
Read case note →On the first SLA visit to a 418-pupil voluntary-aided primary, internal pitting was identified on the cold water storage tank. Replaced over Easter — uncovered, specified, installed.
Read case note →Abbott Surveyors is run from Steyning by Martyn Abbott MRICS, a chartered building surveyor in private practice since 2002. He has worked across the commercial, residential and education estate — first in local-authority property teams, then in private consultancy — before incorporating this firm in February 2013.
The practice stays deliberately small. One surveyor, one phone line, one signature on every report. For larger capital works or specialist tasks we bring in known sub-consultants under our own appointment, so the client deals with a single contract and a single invoice. Reports are typically delivered within ten working days of inspection.
We work the county we can drive across before lunch. It's a deliberate constraint — and it's the reason we can be on site, in person, the morning a property owner needs us.
From the cathedral city of Chichester in the west to East Grinstead on the Surrey border, with sites visited within 48 hours of instruction in normal weeks, and within 24 hours where urgency requires.
A fixed-fee quotation, in writing, within two working days. By telephone, email, post, or the form opposite. No marketing follow-up — ever.