EWS1 Surveyor in Greenwich: Form & External Wall Advice

EWS1 form & external wall advice across Greenwich

EWS1 forms may be requested by lenders or valuers where external wall information for a residential building in Greenwich is incomplete or unclear. We support the EWS1 process by reviewing external wall evidence, explaining the relationship with FRAEW and PAS 9980, and coordinating competent professional input where required.

An EWS1 form is lender/valuation-facing information about external wall systems. It is not a life-safety certificate and does not replace statutory fire risk assessment or wider building safety duties. We work with managing agents, freeholders and residents' associations across Greenwich to identify the evidence already available, define the right next step and link EWS1 advice with PAS 9980, facade investigation or remediation where needed.

Common Building Issues in Greenwich

Where an EWS1 does apply to a Greenwich building, it is a block of flats among the Georgian terraces, Victorian houses, riverside developments and period conversions rather than one of the houses; the form records external wall build-up and attachments, and we establish those by inspection where the records cannot.

Planning and Conservation in Greenwich

Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site with extensive planning controls; Greenwich Council works with Historic England on all significant applications affecting the World Heritage Site buffer zone. We flag this early on Greenwich instructions because an external-wall remediation on a protected building is as much a consent exercise as a fire one, and sequencing the two avoids a redesign once contractors are engaged.

Getting to Greenwich

Our surveyors cover Greenwich and the surrounding Greenwich area. The area is accessible via Greenwich (Elizabeth line, National Rail, DLR), Cutty Sark (DLR), and our team carries out regular inspections across Greenwich SE10.

The 11-metre and 18-metre lines

For converted and lower-rise buildings the first question is whether an EWS1 is needed at all. The statutory thresholds — 11 metres or five storeys for the Building Safety Act 2022’s Part 5 protections (section 117), 18 metres or seven storeys for the section 65 higher-risk regime — sit above most conversions, and guidance from government and RICS is that sub-11-metre buildings should rarely need the form. Where a lender presses, an appraisal grounded in PAS 9980:2026 usually resolves it.

The local context on this page is drawn from public planning and conservation sources, together with the statutory external-wall and building-safety framework EWS1 work sits in: Royal Greenwich conservation areas; Royal Greenwich Article 4 direction areas; Building Safety Act 2022; Fire Safety Act 2021; Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. These sources support the area context; they do not replace inspection of a named building or a fire-risk assessment, and the exact building-safety and planning position should be confirmed for the address.

Greenwich sits inside our London coverage, so an instruction here is quoted on the same published scale as the rest of London rather than on a separate local rate.

Typical fees: EWS1 Form & External Wall Advice instructions in London typically start from £5,000 plus VAT; we confirm a fixed fee after scoping the building and the brief.

The EWS1 Form & External Wall Advice London for Flats, Leaseholders & Managing Agents page sets out the full scope behind that figure.