Chartered surveyors in Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire’s towns pull in different directions, and the county mix shows it, with two strong layers: the years 1900 to 1929 and everything built since 2000. Nottingham supplies most of the second, with more than a quarter of the homes around the centre built since 2000, many of them flats, where the lease, the service charge and the building’s fire safety paperwork matter as much as condition. Mansfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield supply the first: Edwardian terraces built for the pits and the hosiery trade, with their wall ties, bays and early damp-proof courses. Newark and Southwell are older again, market and Minster towns where conservation areas and listed buildings come into the advice, and Worksop and Retford sit in the north by the Chesterfield Canal. The Trent ties the county together and is its main flood question, so any home on its plain is checked against the flood map, and the Yorkshire Coalfield reaches under Worksop, where the mining record is read wherever the history warrants it.

Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants