Leasehold

The report mentions a consultation notice for works next to the porch roof of the block. Has a notice that is not a condition report been tested, or only named?

Only named. A consultation notice for works is not a condition report, and it has not been tested as if it were one. The notice is a leasehold paper about proposed works. The porch roof of the block is a building element the survey may have looked at on its own: covering, flashings, stains. Putting the notice next to that roof does not turn the paper into findings, and it does not turn the findings into a checked account of the works. The survey has not audited the notice. It has not decided that the works match the porch.

Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.

What is the fuller explanation?

Consultation papers tell leaseholders that works are proposed and invite a process. They are not a description of cracks, felt or lead. A survey can look at the porch roof and say what it sees, and that paragraph stands or falls on its own. The notice stands or falls as a legal step, which the surveyor does not complete or validate. Reading the two side by side is a clerical pairing. It is not a test of either.

Pass the consultation notice to the solicitor and ask what stage it has reached and what works it actually describes. Keep the porch-roof comments, if any, as the survey's condition notes. Do not ask the survey to confirm the notice was done properly. Do not treat the notice as a specification of defects. The two documents answer different questions, and this visit has not merged them into one result.

What should you ask your surveyor?

Did you inspect the porch roof itself, or only see the notice named?
Does the notice describe the porch, or was that link only a pairing?
Have you left the legal effect of the notice untested?

What are the typical next steps?

Read the consultation notice with the solicitor, not as a survey.
Keep any porch-roof comments as condition, separate from the paper.
Do not treat the notice as a specification of defects.

Costs vary with the building and with who you instruct. Where this page does not cite a published figure, ask the surveyor, a relevant specialist, or your solicitor for a written quote. Do not treat a forum average as the price.

Also asked about this

If the notice is recent, are the porch works already agreed?

Not from this report. A consultation notice is a step in a leasehold process, and the survey has not tested where that process has got to. Recency is not consent from the leaseholders and not a condition finding. The solicitor should read the notice. The survey has only recorded that the paper was mentioned beside the porch roof.

Can the porch-roof note replace the notice?

No. A condition comment on the porch roof is not a consultation notice, and the notice is not a condition report. The survey named the paper and did not audit it. Each document does its own job. Give the notice to the solicitor and read the roof notes as what was seen, not as the consultation itself.