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B’nai B’rith is the oldest Jewish service organisation, first founded in 1843 in New York. It now operates in over 59 Countries and has and has official status at the UN as an NGO and we are represented at the EU ...

B’nai B’rith Donation of £1,000

In a time when many other firms of Chartered Surveyors and Valuers are tightening their belts, we are pleased to announce our team has grown with the recruitment of Nicky Welton who recently joined our merry band. Nic...

Welcome to Nicky Welton

If you’re reading this, you may be one of the extremely unfortunate residents or landlords who own a property on the Paragon Estate, a development of flats built by Berkeley Homes, with the Landlord being Notting Hill...

Paragon Estate Compulsory Purchase

Dealing with a global pandemic has proven challenging for everyone and every company in very different ways. Many firms of Chartered Surveyors have shut up shop, or went into hibernation, in the hope that the virus wi...

Jonathan promoted

Our Office Manager, Jessica Moss, has successfully received the ‘NCRQ Safety for Managers’ qualification during the lockdown period. To gain the qualification she had to complete a 2-day comprehensive online cours...

Jessica receives NCRQ Qualification

Just over a month into UK wide Lockdown due to Coronavirus and my hair has got too long. It didn’t take much to convince my wife to cut my hair grade 3 all over. She works for the NHS and whilst she’s on maternity lea...

#lockdownhaircutchallenge

On the 13th February 2020, 7 members of our team attended the Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA) annual dinner at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, Holborn. The dinner is a black-tie event that gives the team an o...

CPA Annual Dinner 2020

PEACH which stands for People’s Empowerment Alliance for Custom House is a residents group in Custom House East London. It was founded in April 2013 and has over 250 members from local schools, churches and clubs. ...

PEACH £2,000

“I bought my flat thinking I own my home outright. It’s a scandal that I don’t” “The value of my freehold asset should not be reduced by my tenant getting something for less than it is worth to me, or for le...

Leasehold reform Law Commission report – our thoughts

JAMI is a Mental Health Charity and are a specialist provider of mental health services in the Jewish community. They are currently directly supporting around 1,300 people with the goal of getting them back into schoo...

JAMI £1,675

Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice is based in Barnet, Hertfordshire. They provide clinical and emotional support to babies, children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and their famili...

Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice £1,800

With a leaseholder at Marsh Drive joining our list of clients, we have now reached the tally of 100 homeowners on the West Hendon Estate that we have represented. Of those 100; 84 have sold with our help 4 have agreement...

100 at West Hendon

On Sunday 8th of December 2019, I receive a call from our Graduate Surveyor Shanoor. First thought – I hope he’s alright! It’s a sunday evening so I wasn’t expecting a call. I wondered whether the stress of expecting ...

Shanoor secures an AssocRICS

In November 2019, the RICS produced a new Professional Statement on Home Survey Standards. From June 2020 it will be compulsory to comply with the new guidance. It’s about time too! The array of previous guidance is...

New RICS Home Survey Standard introduced

It’s an exciting time at Sawyer Fielding at the moment. Only three years ago, we were a team of only 3. Now we’re about to become a team of 9 and we’d still like a couple more qualified Surveyors to join us. We�...

Come work for us

We are delighted to inform that our Director Dan Knowles has been elected by his peers to the Board of Directors at the Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA). Dan’s place on the Board is for one year, following on f...

Dan is elected

So the year is 2048 and I’ve just bought the latest IPad, the IPad 28 Pro, complete with 23G, the fastest network yet. I needed it to be honest. The 22G version I bought a couple of years ago runs so slowly now. It ...

If Housebuilders built iPads – a story about Collective Enfranchisement

The best things come in threes! Well, here are our THREE big announcements. New Director New brand New Websites So, here goes…. Meet our new Director We are thrilled to announce that Richard Stacey MRICS has j...

We have big news

In the first of our ‘If I were in charge’ blog posts, our Director Dan Knowles shares what he’d do if he were in charge of the country. As with the posts from other team members to follow, there will be 2 Property rel...

If I were in charge – Dan

Publication Date: June 2019 Heathrow Consult on expansion Masterplan On June 18th 2019, Heathrow revealed its’ Masterplan for the construction of a third runway. Major consultation on proposals like these are not un...

Heathrow Masterplan consultation

Pictured are Ian Breen, Centre Manager for Acton Homeless Concern along with our Director, Dan Knowles and Senior Surveyor Natasha Lamptey. Natasha lives on the nearby South Acton estate and nominated the charity. Dan...

ACTON HOMELESS CONCERN £4,000

On 14th June 2017, there was a horrific and devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, a high rise Council block on the Lancaster West Estate within the borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Some estimates have put the death toll...

GRENFELL TOWER £4,000

In April 2016, Dan Knowles presented Cath Stamper, Chief Executive of York Road Project, with a cheque for £3,000. Cath told us, “Four computers and a printer are now in place and will make a huge difference. Now ...

YORK ROAD PROJECT £3,000

Disability Recreation Unity Movement (DRUM), is a local charity in Watford, which provides a range of affordable, innovative and high-quality day activities for adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities. Some o...

DISABILITY RECREATION UNITY MOVEMENT (DRUM) £2,250

Hillingdon Food Bank help the growing number of people who live below the poverty line, which now affects 1 in 5 of us.Their manager Vine-Daniels said “The Hillingdon food bank relies on donations to keep hunger off...

HILLINGDON FOOD BANK £500

Kisharon is a local charity predominantly based in Hendon, Golders Green and Stamford Hill. The provide aid, education and jobs to children and young adults with special needs. Their vision is that people with learnin...

KISHARON £1,500

North London Hospice, established in 1984 provides those with potentially life-limiting illnesses with 24-hour physical, emotional and spiritual care. They encourage their patients to live life to the fullest, despite...

NORTH LONDON HOSPICE £1,000

‘Regenerate’ provide support to the youth of Roehampton and surrounding areas. One of their centres is based in the heart of the Alton Estate in Roehampton, which is undergoing Regeneration and which we are involv...

REGENERATE £2,000

PACE Charitable Trust is a voluntary organisation which promotes the inclusion and participation of young disabled people in sports, leisure and social activities. Since its establishment in 2004, PACE has gone from s...

PACE £1,750

Published Date: May 2019 Heathrow Expansion Legal Challenge Rejected The High Court on 1st May 2019 rejected legal challenges against Heathrow Airport’s decades-long campaign to expand the aviation centre. The chall...

Heathrow Expansion Legal Challenge Rejected

Developers commit to combat Toxic leases About time, many may say! Many leases of newbuild properties have rather onerous ground rents, described as toxic. Ground rents are typically annual payments paid by a leasehol...

Developers change toxic leases

Leasehold reform The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) committee recently released its report into leasehold housing, in their report the select committee set a range of recommendations to the governmen...

Leasehold reform

Published Date: March 2019 Havelock Estate regeneration plans delayed At the time of writing, we have been appointed by 33 homeowners on the Havelock Estate. Some of these have already sold and some have agreed deals ...

Havelock plans delayed

Removal of the borrowing cap As long as anyone at Sawyer Fielding can remember, successive governments have talked up the need to build more housing. Also, as long as we can remember, the country has failed to do so. ...

Govt. borrowing cap removed

Potential reforms of Land Value capture The Communities & Local Government (CLG) committee are currently examining reform to Land Value Capture (LVC) methods. LVC is a method of tapping into increased value of a prope...

Land Value Capture reforms

Published Date: November 2018 Our Jonathan becomes a Chartered Surveyor In November 2018, our Graduate Surveyor Jonathan Nesbitt successfully passed his Assessment of Professional Competence (APC), which is the final ...

Jonathan becomes Chartered

Changes to Compulsory Purchase Law Compulsory purchase law has recently been affected by changes made to legislation which came into effect on the 22nd of September 2017 and 6th April 2018. The main changes affect the...

CPO Law Changes

Published Date: October 2018 Dan Knowles co-opted to Compulsory Purchase Association National Committee The Compulsory Purchase Association is a ‘Not for Profit’ member organisation which seeks to encourage and develo...

CPA Committee

Published Date: August 2018 Dinosaur Safari Crazy Golf At Sawyer Fielding, we take the service we provide very serious. However, we don’t always take ourselves seriously. On one of our team social events, we went to t...

Team crazy golf

Published Date: August 2018 Social Housing White Paper In August 2018, Government launched it’s new Social Housing white paper. This document is a series of proposals that Government are consulting on. It is widely ac...

Social Housing white paper

Published Date: August 2018 Compulsory Purchase Association National Conference On 11th July 2018, the Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA) held their annual conference. The CPA is a member organisation consisting of...

Conference presentation

Introducing 3 year tenancies The Government are currently looking at increasing the minimum term for tenancy agreements to be three years. Research suggests that 81% of tenants have agreements for 6 or 12 months whils...

3 year tenancies

Dealing with private tenants Compulsory Purchase is flawed when it comes to dealing with private tenants! The system doesn’t work! On Estate regeneration schemes, it’s arguably even worse. When Landlords sell properti...

Securing vacant possession

Published Date: May 2018 Our Natasha becomes a Chartered Surveyor In May 2018, our Graduate Surveyor Natasha Lamptey successfully passed her Assessment of Professional Competence (APC), which is the final hurdle to be...

Natasha becomes Chartered

Shared equity schemes Shared equity on regeneration estates is becoming increasingly more common. Some love it, some hate it. Some schemes work very well. Some fail badly. As with many things, the devil is in the deta...

Shared Equity

Entering the Lands Chamber The Lands Chamber plays a hugely important role in resolving disputes. Disputes are common place, sometimes because of genuine disagreements and sometimes because of one party being unreason...

Access to Justice

Published Date: May 2018 Now working on the Aylesbury Estate We are now representing homeowners on the Aylesbury Estate in Southwark, possibly the most hotly contested estate regeneration scheme in history. The variou...

Entering the Aylesbury

Published Date: January 2018 Jessica Moss promotion to Office Manager As of 1st February 2018, our Office Administrator Jessica Moss was promoted to Office Manager. Jessica started only a year prior bringing 7 years o...

Internal promotion

Published Date: October 2017 Congratulations Natasha Our Assistant Surveyor, Natasha Lamptey has successfully gained a Masters Degree in Real Estate Development from the University of Westminster, passing very comfort...

Our Natasha Lamptey gains an MSc

Published Date: June 2017 Our fourth Sawyer Fielding Gives Back Donation : £4,000 for Grenfell Tower On 14th June 2017, there was a horrific and devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, a high rise Council block on the La...

£4,000 Donation for Grenfell Tower

Published Date: April 2017 Regeneration plans given go-ahead On 6th April 2017, Woking Council’s Cabinet approved the Council’s proposals to take forward the regeneration of the Sheerwater Estate. Proposals had...

Sheerwater Plans

Published Date: March 2017 Good practice guide to Estate Regeneration (Homes for Londoners) Mayor London, Sadiq Khan has provided a draft good practice guide to estate regeneration and as part of the consultation exer...

Consultation to Mayor’s Estate plan

Published Date: January 2017 Louie becomes an RICS Registered Valuer In January 2018, our Senior Surveyor Louie Webb qualified as an RICS Registered Valuer. He previously qualified as an Associate Member of the Royal ...

Congratulations to our Louie

Published Date: November 2016 Wok for 1000 On 1st November 2016, four of our team took part in Wok for 1000, a cookery class ran by School of Wok, an oriental cookery school based in Covent Garden. Approximately 180 p...

Cooking for charity

Published Date: October 2016 In October 2016, HM Government announced that they want to take forward proposals for a third runway at London Heathrow. To build the new runway, approximately 750 residential properties...

Heathrow third runway Compulsory Purchase

Published Date: July 2016 Compulsory Purchase at South Acton Nearly all of the properties in phase 7.1 have now reached negotiated settlements. On many of these, our involvement saw increased settlements of over £1...

South Acton negotiations and phasing

Published Date: March 2016 It’s not very often that regeneration hits more than the local news. West Hendon in North London though is far from the normal estate that we’ve worked on. ‘The Estate we’re in’ was a one h...

BBC1 Documentary

Published Date: February 2016 In December 2015 Sawyer Fielding launched their Sawyer Fielding Gives Back scheme. Sawyer Fielding are in a unique position to understand how it feels to lose your home to a Compulsory Pu...

Charity Service Launch

Published Date: January 2016 West Hendon Compulsory Purchase Order Confirmed On Thursday 12th November 2015, the London Borough of Barnet (West Hendon Regeneration Area) Compulsory Purchase Order No 1 2014 was confirm...

West Hendon CPO

Published Date: January 2016 Planning Application submitted on Sheerwater Estate On 13th November 2015, New Vision Homes submitted a planning application to Woking Council. Since approved, it grants permission for the...

Sheerwater Estate

Published Date: January 2016 Recruiting for Chartered Surveyors It has perhaps never been a more interesting time to work in Compulsory Purchase. Housing Estates across London are being regenerated, leaving more poten...

Join Our Team

Published Date: January 2016 Whitefield Estate (Brent Cross, Cricklewood) Public Inquiry The Public Inquiry to assess whether or not London Borough of Barnet should secure Compulsory Purchase powers for the redevelopm...

Brent Cross Public Inquiry

Published Date: January 2016 Housing and Planning Bill to reform Compulsory Purchase Law In December 2015, the final sitting of the Committee considering the Housing and Planning Bill took place. The Bill is wide-rang...

Law Reform Comments

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