In addition to environmental risk assessment, some properties and circumstances may require additional work to ascertain the data and information which is held by regulatory authorities. This information can often be formally disclosed using the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, or in some cases the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
GreenLight Searches is an excellent initial study which helps identify the important issues that may affect a property. This is achieved by undertaking pertinent enquires to the relevant authorities. For example, these enquiries could be to the Environmental Health Department, the Planning Department, Building Control, Environment Agency and the Petroleum Licensing Authority and will be customised according to the property requirements.
If the property is being acquired for investment purposes, GreenLight Searches will reveal impediments that are not obvious in the public domain that may have an adverse effect on value or suitability for use.
Although GreenLight Searches does not include a property inspection, it is an excellent starting point and will provide the customer with a rounded and well-informed property report. The report also delivers a clear and cost-effective ‘next steps’ process.
Compiled, assessed and peer-reviewed by Chartered Environmental Surveyors, GreenLight Searches provides a comprehensive range of features:
- Relevant enquiries to regulatory authorities;
- An environmental risk assessment;
- Review of historic Ordnance Survey mapping;
- Review of important environmental data, including flooding, mining and ground instability, radon, fuel station locations and radioactive substances;
- Customised ‘EnviroMAP’ for the property;
- Site-specific recommendation of the next steps needed with proposed costs;
- Recommendation of other relevant services, such as asbestos surveys/management plans, fire risk assessments and energy performance certificates;
- Useful contacts list;
- Report supplied as a PDF file for easy and efficient storage.
It is fully compliant with RICS Practice Standards, notably ‘Contamination, the Environment and Sustainability – Implications for chartered surveyors and their clients’ published in April 2010.
Importantly the report can be customised to individual users needs through dedicated account management. Expert Chartered Environmental Surveyors are on standby, prepared to help where further assessment is recommended.
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