David Bowden & Associates Information

David Bowden is a founding director of Urban Building Surveyors in London. He specialises in party walls, rights to light and other rights across boundaries. For over twenty five years David Bowden has had the pleasure and privilege of working with many clients on a wide range of projects advising on and successfully resolving many complex disputes and issues. David is very knowledgeable about the effects of construction work including noise and vibration, light obstruction and pollution, and electromagnetic radiation. He has extensive experience in their control both in practical terms and legally under party wall, planning, and pollution legislation, and at common law. David Bowden enjoys working with clients and other professionals to facilitate construction in the urban environment, to help maximise site use, to minimise costs and delays caused by or to neighbours, and to safeguard the rights of owners of land and buildings from building works and associated activities nearby. David Bowden is a Chartered Building Surveyor who specialises in neighbourly matters, including party walls, rights to light, daylight and sunlight for planning, easements, and boundaries. He has a degree in Land Administration from the North East London Polytechnic, now the University of East London. After gaining his degree in 1978 he became an assistant to the late John Anstey BA FRICS, rights to light and party wall surveyor, of Anstey Horne & Co in Newbury Street EC1, who to this day is considered an authority on party walls and rights to light. John Anstey was extensively involved in the drafting of the Party Wall etc Act 1996, and the founding of the Pyramus & Thisbe Club (the P&T) in 1974. The P&T was established for surveyors and members of other professions in London to share knowledge and experience in party wall matters, and was limited to one hundred members. In 1982 David left to gain further experience at Wilks Head & Eve in Harley Street W1, a similarly well known and respected firm specialising in the same areas but ...