Environmental, Planning and Flood Reports
HWC Searches is a completely independent company whose only loyalty is to you, our client.
In order to properly advise and cater to all conveyancers, we provide environmental reports and additional services from all of the major providers and the smaller ones too.
Below we have listed some of our main partners and their most popular products.
Groundsure
Groundsure are a leading UK environmental search company. Their reports give expert information on risks including land contamination, flooding and ground stability.
Groundsure provide comprehensive, easy-to-read environmental search reports. Their reports are built with the conveyancer in mind with colour coded risk ratings, pass/next steps indicators and fewer pages with clear information.
Recently, all of their reports now include Climate Change assessments such as coastal erosion, ground shrink/swell risks.
Their range of reports fit nicely into a basic, full and enhanced version.
For samples and information on their full range of reports, click here.
DevAssist
DevAssist are the only company offering property buyers bespoke reports that look to the future as well as the past and present. Their unique reports will expose if there is any potential threat – or opportunity – from development as well as identifying any existing planning applications that may affect the property.
By studying planning policy, SHLAA documents, planning data and more, they are able to advise on what is being planned or feasibly what could happen in a location. When a developer proposes land for development it will receive passionate and deep objection from locals – in almost every case the residents never saw it coming.
That’s why we pre-advise where the risks are and how likely they are to be developed. DevAssist create clear, readable reports that deliver clarity and enable decision making, safe in the knowledge that the whole picture is understood.
For information and samples on their full range of reports, click here.
Landmark
Landmark Legal are providers of environmental and other location-based risk information to the residential and commercial property sectors in England, Wales and Scotland. They support legal and conveyancing professionals in their property due diligence in line with the Law Society and SRA requirements, providing a wide range of property searches.
They offer a comprehensive, flexible and continually evolving range of services and are able to support every type of property transaction.
For information and samples on their full range of reports, click here.
