Leisure facilities building surveys

The 1st Associated.co.uk group of chartered surveyors have carried out many kinds of surveys including feasibility studies, measured surveys, structural surveys and building surveys (click here to find out more) on leisure facilities over the years, particularly on pubs, clubs and nightclubs.  We have focused this section on recent surveys that we have done on pubs, as we feel we have a specialised knowledge of the licensed trade.  

The term public house or pub can mean many things to many people and can be quite broad, we have therefore considered the following - venue pubs, community pubs, town centre pubs, food based pubs, pubs with accommodation and traditional wet lead pubic houses.

Our Building reports can consider the liabilities if you are buying freehold or taking on a lease. We particularly have specialist knowledge of leases, having been involved with the Mergers and Monopolies Commission and dealt with many breweries, young, old, established and no longer operating, together with pub companies and individuals.

Our building reports have been uniquely designed to identify your liabilities and aid negotiation (never accept the first figure) and protect your future liabilities.  We only use chartered building surveyors with experience of the licence trade.  We have a surveyor who is in the British Institute of Innkeepers www.bii.org and has been involved with single 'hands on' and multi pub operations.  

Also featured here are examples of a restaurant, take away outlet and coffee shop.  1st Associated have been responsible for building surveys on all of these types of properties - an example of the surveys are below.

Some Reasons You Should Use us for your Pub Survey!:-

An Unfair Game

We carry out a structual survey to protect the cleint when they buy the lease ( a lease is a right to use a property (pub) to a set of rules made up by the landlord!  a very unfair game!)   This spots any structual problems costly maintenance issues

Any fool can get a lease

In surveying we often say "any fool can get a lease" this is because they can! and the Pub owners love it - with pubs, people are often so keen to get a pub they will sign almost anything - this becomes a problem in 5-10 or 20 years time when they want to leave the pub and the Pub owner says well you signed to do all these things why have they not been done'.

A Delapidation (known as a Delaps) report if then serviced on the lease holder (our client) for the cost of the works, these usually run into thousands.  So to protect the cleint we do a "schedule of condition" as well as the structual survey which means taking 100's of pictures and recording the condition of each room andthe external of the property.

Three words that cost a lot of money "Put and Keep"

Most pub owning companies have a "put and kepp" clause in the lease - ask the pub buyer is this in his lease?  There three words costs thousands of pounds they force the pub buyer to "put and keep" the property in good condition regardless of what it looks like today.  A Delaps can be serve 10 seconds after they take the pub over on this clause alone

We look at things other surveyors don't mention!

Examples

1/ Does the building meet the EHO standards which is the Environmental Health standards on food hygeine in the kitchen and conditions in the beers cellars

2/ Does it comply with DDAct (Disabled legislation that means you have to alter any public building to give reasonable access the the disabled/lesable)

I dont' know of any other survey that looks at these issues

We also look at the good things to

The survey is very detailsed but it has a Summary which says all they need to know initially in brief including the good points - and we comment on extension, alteration and improvments to layout to increase trade

Meet them at the property

No other company does this!  because our reports are written for the individual and not mass produced, we like to meet our clients at the property and get to understand what they want better

Pubs / Clubs / Night Clubs
Venue Pubs	Community Pubs	Town Centre Pubs	Food Based Pubs	Pubs with accomodation	Traditional pubs
Hotels	Restaurants	Take Aways	Coffee shops	Night Club (Schedule of condition)	Schedule of Dilapidations (explained in plain English with examples)
		Night Club Schedule of Condition	Listed Pub with Restaurant

We have prepared a case study to illustrate how we have helped a previous customer with the purchase of their pub.   We have many years experience as commercial property surveyors and will be able to provide invaluable help with assessing your potential investment. find out more ...

And to add to this.......here's a list of every single pub we've surveyed since the business started......

The White Hart Coach House                                                

01 High Street

Downham Market

Norfolk

Survey Carried out: October 2002

The Spa Bar

Queens Street

Hitchin

Hertfordshire

Survey Carried outL November 2002

Bar Tab

52 Wellington Street

Luton

Bedfordshire

Survey Carried out: November 2002

The Plough Inn

Tebworth Road

Wingfield

Near Leighton buzzard

Survey Carried out: December 2002

The Red Lion

23-25 Derby Road

Chellaston

Derby

Survey Carried out:  February 2003

The Star

29 High Street

Melbourn

Near Royston

Hertfordshire

Survey Carried out: September 2003

White Hart Public House

99 High Street

Stevenage Old Town

Hertfordshire

Survey Carried out: October 2003

The Tudor Rose Club

20-30 Huntingdon Street

St Neots

Cambridgeshire

Survey Carried out: December 2003

Reids Bar

25 Estcourt Road

Watrford

Hertfordshire

Survey Carried out: December 2003

The Chichester Inn

38 West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

Survey Carried out:January 2004

Edisons

42 Kings Street

Cheshire

Survey Carried out: February 2005

The Green Man

37 market Hill

Royston

Survey Carried out: February 2005

The Bell Inn

Bruton Road

Evercreech

Shepton

Survey Carried out: March 2005

The Eclipse Public House

57 Elderfield Road

Hackney

Survey Carried out: March 2005

The Bell Inn

21 Market Square

Lower Heyford

Oxon

Survey Carried out: June 2005

The White Hart

Howletts End

Wimbish

Saffron Walden

Survey Carried out: July 2005

The Clarence Public House

13 St Johns Street

Bedford

Survey Carried out: September 2005

Cartref

2 Grammar School Road

North Walsham

Norfolk

Survey Carried out: October 2005

The Crawfurd Arms

59 Stratford Road

Wolverton

Milton Keynes

Survey Carried out: October 2005

The Coach and Horses

Arundel Road

Worthing

West Sussex

Survey Carried out: December 2005

The Marquis of Granby

West Street

Sussex

Survey Carried out: December 2005

The Wheatsheaf Public House

82 High Street North

Dunstable

Bedfordshire

Survey Carried out: March 2006

The Leagate Inn

Coringsby

Lincolnshire

Survey Carried out: April 2006

The Red Lion

63 London Road

Bozeat

Northamptonshire

Survey Carried out: April 2006 

Old Kings Head

Malden Road

Great Wigborough

Colchester

Essex

Survey Carried out: September 2006 

Meet Bar

85 Charterhouse Street

London

Survey Carried out: October 2006 

The Sun Inn

101 High Street

Markyate

St Albans

Hertfordshire

October 2006

The Red Lion

11 Market Place

Brackley

Northamptonshire

November 2006 

The Swan Inn

36 High Street

Markyate

St Albans

November 2006