Introduction to Dorset Property

Dorset Property provides property services to all parts of the council and other public sector clients.

We can help clients make best use of the properties they occupy for the delivery of their services. We employ architects, mechanical and electrical services engineers, structural engineers, landscape architects, clerks of works, quantity surveyors, project managers, property and land surveyors, valuers, land agents and other property specialists supported by technical and support teams.

Dorset Property can provide advice on all property matters, from first thoughts, to inception, acquisition, options appraisal, feasibility, design, investment and development, construction, maintenance, management, refurbishment, demolition and disposal.

As an advisory and consultancy service of Dorset Council we aim to provide a 'value for money' not for profit service of imaginative, practical, innovative and sustainable property solutions.

Services offered by Dorset Property

We provide property services to public sector bodies across the county. The following services are available individually or packaged to meet your need:

• advice on any aspect of your building
• asbestos management surveys  
• asbestos removal project management
• asbestos survey reviews
• building elevation surveys
• construction (design and management) 'principal designer' services
• cost consultancy
• design and contract administration services (architecture and landscape)
• drinking water quality issues 
• fire risk building alteration advice
• fire risk assessments
• fire risk assessment reviews  
• inspection services (clerks of works) 
• land and measured building surveys
• land and property acquisition and disposal  
• land compensation and compulsory purchase
• legionella/water hygiene risk assessment management
• legionella/water hygiene risk management training 
• market valuation appraisals
• measured building surveys
• mechanical and electrical services design and contract administration
• project management
• radon gas survey and remedial action management  
• rent reviews and lease renewals
• small project services
• structural engineers 
• topographical surveys 
• Trend Building Management System (BMS) service  
• wayleave and easement negotiation

For further information about our services please contact us: