September 22, 2024
If your property is listed, you’ll have to get listed-building consent. Also, if your property is in a conservation space you could have to get planning permission to change your home windows or doorways. In the worst-case situation, you can have to underpin the property, which can value as a lot as £50,000. But, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors estimate that’s only needed in less than 10% of cases. That is the typical claim made on insurance for subsidence according to the Association of British Insurers. If a property has moved, you could need to deal with the price …
