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Contamination and environmental matters: property observation checklists
These property observation checklists from the RICS guidance note Contamination, the environment and sustainability: Implications for chartered surveyors and their clients. They can form the basis for research, and for compiling a record of methodical inspection.
These checklists are provided as a sample only. It is the user's responsibility to check and adapt them as necessary to suit the particular instruction and prevailing circumstances. -
Contamination, the environment and sustainability: Implications for chartered surveyors and their clients (ARCHIVE)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
The challenges presented by contaminated land and environmental issues, such as the flood risk caused by climate change, and the need to live in a more sustainable way mean that the demand for best advice has never been more important. Surveyors are uniquely placed to provide this advice to clients in all property sectors.
This guidance note aims to support and guide the professional activities both of those who are already highly proficient in this area and also those who are less experienced.
This publication was reviewed and a new standard was published in 2018: 'Environmental risk and global real estate'. -
Japanese knotweed and residential property
Published January 2022
Effective from March 2022
Reissued October 2022
This professional standard is an update to an RICS information paper published in 2012, responding to a House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published report – Japanese knotweed and the built environment – and a Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) investigation into Japanese Knotweed that questioned the current approach to assessing the risk, and by extension, impact on value, of Japanese knotweed on the built environment.
The purpose of this updated document is to address both the findings and provide guidance based on market-informed industry best practice and the most recent research about a more holistic assessment of Japanese knotweed to ensure RICS members provide the best advice to users of valuation and condition reports.
This document contains a decision tree based on risk level to help valuers determine the appropriate management approach needed for Japanese knotweed. The new process still delivers a straightforward and objective categorisation of Japanese knotweed infestations because this provides the clarity that is essential for lenders, and which will continue to ensure confidence and trust among wider stakeholders.
This document was reissued in October 2022 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in February 2022 as a guidance note. The regulatory requirements remain the same and no material changes have been made to the document. -
International approaches to the valuation of land and property affected by contamination (RICS)
Published August 2003
This research paper will enable practitioners to understand some of the implications involved in the valuation of contaminated land and to compare British research and practice with the situation in the United States. -
Water from abandoned mines (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
This information paper attempts to provide a brief insight into the occurrence and nature of mine water. It explores the possible effect of mine closures on mine-water regimes and considers the legal aspect of mine abandonment.