
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


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 selection of Pubs, Bars, Restaurants etc that we have surveyed for both purchase and lease:
The White Hart Coach House
01 High Street
Downham Market
Norfolk
The Spa Bar
Queens Street
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
Bar Tab
52 Wellington Street
Luton
Bedfordshire
The Plough Inn
Tebworth Road
Wingfield
Near Leighton buzzard
The Red Lion
23-25 Derby Road
Chellaston
Derby
The Star
29 High Street
Melbourn
Near Royston
Hertfordshire
White Hart Public House
99 High Street
Stevenage Old Town
Hertfordshire
The Tudor Rose Club
20-30 Huntingdon Street
St Neots
Cambridgeshire
Reids Bar
25 Estcourt Road
Watrford
Hertfordshire
The Chichester Inn
38 West Street
Chichester
West Sussex
Edisons
42 Kings Street
Cheshire
The Green Man
37 market Hill
Royston
The Bell Inn
Bruton Road
Evercreech
Shepton
The Eclipse Public House
57 Elderfield Road
Hackney
The Bell Inn
21 Market Square
Lower Heyford
Oxon
The White Hart
Howletts End
Wimbish
Saffron Walden
The Clarence Public House
13 St Johns Street
Bedford
Cartref
2 Grammar School Road
North Walsham
Norfolk
The Crawfurd Arms
59 Stratford Road
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
The Coach and Horses
Arundel Road
Worthing
West Sussex
The Marquis of Granby
West Street
Sussex
The Wheatsheaf Public House
82 High Street North
Dunstable
Bedfordshire
The Leagate Inn
Coringsby
Lincolnshire
The Red Lion
63 London Road
Bozeat
Northamptonshire
Old Kings Head
Malden Road
Great Wigborough
Colchester
Essex
Meet Bar
85 Charterhouse Street
London
The Sun Inn
101 High Street
Markyate
St Albans
Hertfordshire
The Red Lion
11 Market Place
Brackley
Northamptonshire
The Swan Inn
36 High Street
Markyate
St Albans
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