Reported for having ‘dangerous structures’

[nOvOn]

It is common practice for a home buyers surveyor to report back to building control dept at the local council? Two days after we had our house surveyed we had a Building Control Officer turn up unannounced as they had had a report of dangerous structures at the property. They had a good look round but found nothing of concern at all.

I'd assume it was the potential buyers who'd reported it tbh, not the surveyor but I don't know if they (surveyors) have a responsibility to report anything to planning.

I'd assume it's not the potential buyers that reported it as I doubt they'd have even received the survey back after 2 days.

How bizarre! Did they give you any idea what the supposedly dangerous structures were? I'd have thought it would be reasonable to let you know, given that you live there!

@Halllyup17

I'd assume it's not the potential buyers that reported it as I doubt they'd have even received the survey back after 2 days.

I had the survey back the same day, on my last purchase, so within 2 days is perfectly doable.

Thanks for the replies. I don’t think it was the buyers. They have now been for a 2nd viewing and didn’t even look at the areas that were reported.

The Building Control Officer asked to look at the dividing 4ft high brick garden wall between us and next door. The other issue was a supposedly collapsing party wall in the attic. We’ve got right in to the back of the eaves and the only problem we could see was a bit of insulation had dropped down which we’ve pushed back into place and there were a few small chunks of terracotta tiles scattered about, probably from where we had the roof replaced a year ago.

We were at home when the survey was completed and they gave no indication that anything was wrong.

Are you sure they were a building control officer and not a scammer? Or someone sent by the people viewing it to check it over. It might be worth phoning the council to check that they really came out from there. My experience of building control is they wouldn’t be that interested.