Chartered surveyors in West Yorkshire

Stone sets West Yorkshire apart from the brick counties on the other side of the Pennines: much of the pre-1900 stock, from Bradford’s gritstone terraces to the valley towns along the Aire and the Calder, was built to shed water off the face of the wall, and it suffers when hard cement pointing or sealing coatings are put over it. Those valleys also concentrate the county’s water, because alongside the two rivers runs a dense network of becks, and the flood-area counts here are among the highest we see anywhere, more than forty around Huddersfield alone. The Yorkshire Coalfield underlies the Leeds and Wakefield side of the county, taking in Castleford, Pontefract and Featherstone, so mining checks belong in the conversation on that side. We have issued more than 540 reports across West Yorkshire since 2023, and homes built since 2000 account for over four in ten of them, led by Leeds. A week here can run from a gritstone terrace that needs to breathe to an estate house still in its warranty period, and the two demand entirely different reports.

Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants