Chartered surveyors in South Yorkshire

Housing and coal grew up together in South Yorkshire: seven of the nine towns we cover sit on the Yorkshire Coalfield, and the housing has two distinct peaks, 1900 to 1929 and 1945 to 1964, with genuinely Victorian stock scarcer here than in either of the other Yorkshire counties we work. That history makes a mining report close to a default recommendation, and any sign of structural movement is weighed against the possibility of old workings before we settle on a more ordinary explanation. The Don and the Dearne keep much of the county low-lying, with flood-area counts above twenty around Doncaster, Conisbrough and Bolton upon Dearne, so we treat the flood maps as required reading here. Our own records are young and centred on Doncaster, 73 reports since 2024, more than half of them on post-2000 homes as the newer estates trade. The balance will broaden as the file grows, and the county’s colliery-era terraces will bring their own checklist when it does.

Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants