Category
8 articles
Section 61 prior consent under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 can fix working hours, methods and monitoring before demolition begins. Developers should treat it as a programme and procurement issue, not a post-mobilisation reaction to complaints.
Developers often test a demolition price and programme long before they test the waste paper trail. This article sets out how duty of care, waste classification and transfer documentation should be built into acquisition, tender and handover.
Utility isolation is routinely treated as an administrative formality and then becomes the reason a demolition start date moves by a quarter. This guide sets out who owns each asset, how long the statutory processes actually take, and where the cost traps sit on urban UK sites.
A report titled refurbishment and demolition survey can still be scoped around refurbishment works, leaving demolition areas uninspected. This article explains how UK developers can check the scope, brief the surveyor and avoid buying a document that does not cover the work.
The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 is short, technical and unforgiving of late starts. This practical guide sets out when demolition and adjacent excavation trigger notice, how awards and schedules of condition work, and what happens to a programme when party wall strategy is left until the scaffold is already standing.
Remote-controlled demolition machines are transforming work in confined, structurally sensitive spaces — and being oversold in tender documents. Here is a clear-eyed assessment of where automation genuinely reduces risk, where it remains impractical, and the questions developers should insist on asking in 2026.
On constrained urban sites, the final hour of the working day is where goodwill is most often lost. A practical look at Section 61 consents, dust monitoring, vibration limits and liaison arrangements that keep a demolition programme moving without turning the street against it.
The Building Safety Act has moved from headline legislation to daily reality on higher-risk sites. For developers, the practical question in 2026 is what evidence a demolition contractor should be able to put on the table before mobilisation — and what it costs when that evidence arrives late.