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West Sussex covers a wider commercial range than its coastal reputation suggests. Crawley is one of the South East's most significant logistics and aviation-related employment centres, sitting directly adjacent to Gatwick Airport. Chichester serves a professional and retail market with a distinct historic character. Worthing, Horsham, and Bognor Regis each support local business communities with a mix of offices, retail, and light industrial stock. That variety demands surveyors who know what they are looking at across it all.

Our RICS-registered surveyors serve property owners, investors, lenders, occupiers, and insolvency practitioners across West Sussex. Instructions are supported through our national office network, drawing on 180 years of experience delivering commercial building surveys across the UK.

Call 0800 051 2593, email [email protected], or use the contact form on this page to arrange a no-obligation consultation.

Our commercial building survey types

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Commercial building survey

A thorough assessment of a commercial property's condition, identifying structural defects, maintenance requirements, and potential liabilities. We inspect accessible elements of the building and provide a detailed report to support your purchase, lease, or investment decision.

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Dilapidations

Dilapidations are the repair and reinstatement obligations that arise under a commercial lease. Whether you are a landlord preparing a schedule of dilapidations or a tenant seeking to understand your liability at lease end, we assess the position clearly and negotiate on your behalf where required.

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Schedule of condition

A schedule of condition records the precise state of a property at a specific point in time, most commonly at the start of a lease. The document limits a tenant's repair liability to no worse than the condition recorded, providing important protection throughout the lease term.

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Measured survey

A measured survey produces accurate floor plans, elevations, and sections of a building for use in design, development, or asset management. Our surveyors capture detailed spatial data on site, delivering drawings to the specification and scale your project requires.

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What commercial property types do we survey in West Sussex?

The county's commercial stock spans airport-adjacent logistics in Crawley, historic town centre retail in Chichester, and a mix of offices and light industrial premises across Worthing, Horsham, and Bognor Regis. Our surveyors assess all of it:

Offices

West Sussex's office market is most active around Crawley and Horsham, where business park development has created a substantial stock of mid-to-late 20th-century buildings. Many are now subject to lease events or refurbishment decisions, where an accurate condition assessment is the starting point for any informed choice.

Chichester also attracts smaller professional services occupiers to older town centre premises with their own distinct survey requirements.

Retail units

Retail premises across West Sussex reflect the county's mix of coastal towns and market centres. Worthing and Bognor Regis have traditional high streets where building age and condition vary significantly from unit to unit. Chichester's walled city centre presents historic fabric and listed building considerations.

We assess each retail property in full, with attention to what the specific building type and location actually demands.

Industrial and logistics buildings

Crawley's proximity to Gatwick makes it a natural hub for aviation-related logistics, freight handling, and time-sensitive distribution. The industrial and logistics stock here serves operators for whom building performance is operationally critical.

Our surveyors assess structural condition, cladding, floor loadings, and servicing provision with the thoroughness that high-dependency occupiers require.

Investment portfolios

West Sussex attracts investors who recognise the county's combination of transport access, coastal appeal, and relative affordability compared to neighbouring Surrey and East Sussex. Clients holding investment assets across multiple locations in the county need survey outputs they can compare and rely on.

We apply consistent professional standards across every asset in a portfolio, giving investors the evidence base their decisions require.

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Why choose BTG Eddisons for building surveys in West Sussex?

  • Every survey is completed by RICS-accredited surveyors, the standard that lenders, solicitors, and transaction parties expect and rely on.
  • Our team has the range to move confidently between Gatwick logistics assets, Chichester's historic commercial fabric, and coastal town retail without treating any of them as routine.
  • The breadth of our completed work means clients benefit from accumulated experience rather than a narrow specialism.
  • The feedback we consistently receive points to reports that are clear, reliable, and genuinely useful at the point of decision.

How do I get a building survey started in West Sussex?

  1. Call 0800 051 2593 or email [email protected] and tell us about the property.
  2. We will talk through what you need and advise on the right survey type, with no cost or obligation at this stage.
  3. We set out a clear quote and a realistic timeline before anything is commissioned.
  4. You instruct us, we arrange access, and the survey is carried out at a time that works for you.

Start your West Sussex building survey today

Whatever the property and wherever it sits in the county, the right survey starts with the right surveyor. Our team is ready to help. Fill in the form below, call 0800 051 2593, or email [email protected] to get in touch.

 

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Mark Pepper

Mark Pepper

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Regional Director (London and South East)

Mark is a Regional Director based in our Luton office and a Chartered Building Surveyor heading our Building Consultancy team. He delivers building surveying and project management nationwide, taking commercial, residential, and education projects from inception through to completion.

West Sussex has a genuinely varied commercial property market. Gatwick's logistics demand sits alongside historic town centres and coastal high streets, and each one calls for a different surveying approach.

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