Mr David Bowden

Chartered Building Surveyor

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TAE Accreditations

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Qualifications

Degree in Land Administration, North East London Polytechnic BSc (1978)
Associate member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators ACIArb (1987)
Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors FRICS (1987)
Member, Society of Light and Lighting MSLL (2014)

Expert Witness Snapshot

David Bowden is a founding director of a niche firm of Chartered Building Surveyors in London EC1. He is a Chartered Building Surveyor, a Fellow of the RICS, a Member of the Society of Light and Lighting, an Associate of CIArb, an Affiliate of CIBSE, and also a Fellow of the Pyramus & Thisbe Society, and has been London Chairman and National Committee member.

With over forty years’ experience of party wall and boundary matters, rights to light, and other easements, David has given expert evidence on boundaries, structural damage and its cause, and party wall matters. He advises both on rights to light and on sunlight and daylight for planning.

He has given evidence to the Law Commission and to the House of Lords.

His research into the history of special foundations led to a paradigm shift in their understanding. Some papers are on researchgate.net

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