Structural Engineer report for an internal non load bearing wall

[Maylily922]

I would like to remove an non load bearing stud wall in my flat, and the freehholder requires a report from a chartered structural engineer showing that the wall is non load bearing. Does anybody know any reasonable Chartered Structural Engineer around Hampshire, or where to find one? How much dose this sort of report normally cost?

Thanks

Mine cost £600 two years ago, OP. I was furious, as I knew the damn wall wasn’t load bearing in the first place, but the builder insisted on it.
The structural engineer looked at the wall, scratched his head, said he wasn’t sure, and went to ask an architect neighbour he knew down the same street, who’d already removed the equivalent wall in the same model of house!
It’s a complete rip off, but you can’t go ahead without one or you won’t get the building certificate afterwards, making it very difficult to ever sell the house.

Walls in newer houses that look like they are Non load bearing can still be designed as a buttress wall to stabilise other walls so it is not always as simple as it sounds. Look on istructe find an engineer and you should be able to find someone. Try and stick with a small local firm to keep the cost down. You may even find someone in the yellow pages.