FRAEW / PAS 9980 in West Hampstead

FRAEW / PAS 9980 across West Hampstead

FRAEW and PAS 9980 work in West Hampstead is evidence-led. We review available external wall information, identify gaps and coordinate competent professional input where the building scope requires it.

PAS 9980 is the risk-based methodology used for external wall appraisals. Our role is to support the evidence review, site investigation scope, reporting brief and next-step advice for buildings in West Hampstead, linking findings to EWS1 requests, facade investigations and remediation planning where appropriate.

Common Building Issues in West Hampstead

Much of West Hampstead's flatted Victorian terraces, Edwardian houses, mansion flats and period conversions sits below the heights where a FRAEW is routinely expected; our first job is deciding whether a specific block genuinely needs one, so leaseholders are not committed to an appraisal a lower-rise building does not warrant.

Planning and Conservation in West Hampstead

On West Hampstead's conservation-area and period flatted stock, appearance and material choices that resolve an external-wall concern still have to clear the controls any visible change engages, so we scope with both in view.

Getting to West Hampstead

Our surveyors cover West Hampstead and the surrounding Camden area. The area is accessible via West Hampstead (Jubilee/Thameslink/Overground – all three modes at different stations), and our team carries out regular inspections across West Hampstead NW6.

The thresholds behind the advice

For mid-rise blocks the appraisal question is rarely whether the wall is perfect — PAS 9980:2026 directs attention to whether risk to occupants is tolerable, and to the most proportionate response where it is not. The statutory thresholds bracket that judgement: 11 metres or five storeys for the Building Safety Act 2022’s Part 5 protections (section 117); 18 metres or seven storeys, with two or more residential units, for higher-risk status (section 65).

External-wall and EWS1 demand in West Hampstead concentrates on the modern blocks around the West End Lane interchange, not the area’s Victorian mansion blocks.

The clearest external-wall case here is Heritage Lane (the former West Hampstead Square) on West End Lane — five blocks rising to around twelve storeys, where leaseholders were told in 2020 that the external cladding was rated B2, following a 2018 balcony fire, and the developer registered for the Building Safety Fund. The Ivery on Iverson Road is a smaller modern stone-and-copper rainscreen block of the type a PAS 9980 appraisal is written for.

By contrast, the red-brick Victorian and Edwardian mansion blocks along West End Lane — such as Buckingham, Cumberland and Welbeck Mansions — and mid-rise post-war stock like Sidney Boyd Court are solid masonry below the 18-metre higher-risk threshold, where an EWS1 is rarely the real question. On a West Hampstead instruction we say plainly which category a building falls into before recommending a FRAEW or an EWS1.

For the London-wide scope, see our EWS1 advice and FRAEW and PAS 9980 pages; for the difference between them, see EWS1 versus FRAEW.

The local context on this page is drawn from public planning and conservation sources, together with the statutory and professional framework FRAEW / PAS 9980 appraisals sit in: Camden conservation areas; Camden Article 4 directions; 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.

West Hampstead 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: FRAEW / PAS 9980 instructions in London typically start from £5,000 plus VAT; we confirm a fixed fee after scoping the building and the brief.

The FRAEW & PAS 9980 External Wall Fire Risk Appraisal London page sets out the full scope behind that figure.