About KSP
About Us
KSP was founded in 1976.
KSP was founded in 1976 as King Sumners & Partners and underwent a minor name change in 1985 to King Sumners Partnership. At this time the Practice operated from offices in Portsmouth, Salisbury and Winchester. In 1991 a new head office was opened in Fareham, while the Practice retained a satellite office in Winchester. In August 2021 we relocated to the Fareham Innovation Centre, Lee-on-the-Solent. For nearly 50 years the Practice has provided consultant services to many varied clients from a wide range of sectors.
We are committed to providing our clients with a consistently focused and professional service, individually tailored to their own specific requirements. Our aim is to deliver the best service possible on each and every project.
The Partners and each member of our highly professional team appreciate the value of every commission, large or small and we believe that this is appreciated by many of our clients who return to us again and again. Our client retention and positive referral record is excellent.
Meet the team
John has over thirty-five years pre and post contract experience as a Quantity Surveyor working on housing, religious, educational, leisure, commercial and retail projects.
John currently provides Consultant Quantity Surveying, Employer’s Agent and Contract Administration services to a variety of Clients on both new build and refurbishment projects.
He is involved in schemes from inception through to completion; from initial feasibility costings through to the agreement of final account.
In recent years his main focus has been large one-off house refurbishments and new builds, and special schools.
John qualified as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor in 1992, and in 2009 became a Partner of the Practice which he joined as a Graduate Surveyor in 1987.
Ann has extensive experience as a Quantity Surveyor in private practice representing the interests of Clients in a variety of sectors.
Her primary role is as Consultant Quantity Surveyor/Employer’s Agent and often also as Contract Administrator on a wide variety of new build and refurbishment projects for various Local Authorities and private clients, in the housing, education and private sectors.
Ann generally will be involved with and remain responsible for a project from the initial brief through to project completion. Her experience has been to provide all aspects of the traditional quantity surveying service on projects which have followed various procurement routes and which range from the relatively small ‘minor works’ contract to the more complex multi-million pound new build or extension, remodelling and refurbishment project.
Ann has over forty years’ experience as a Quantity Surveyor, earning her Chartered status in 1989, soon after joining King Sumners Partnership. She had more than 10 years experience acting as an Associate, and become a Partner of the Practice in 2009.
With nearly forty years experience as a Quantity Surveyor in private practice Paul represented the interests of Clients working on housing, commercial, religious, educational, retail and industrial projects and projects of a special historic interest including Scheduled Monuments.
Paul now primarily provides Project Management, Consultant Quantity Surveying and Employers Agent services to various Clients across the South of the UK on a wide variety of demolition, rebuilding, new build, repair and refurbishment schemes in the private and public sectors.
Paul’s academic qualifications comprise an ordinary National Diploma in Building and a BSc (Honours) Degree in Quantity Surveying. Paul gained his Chartered status in 1988 after three years as a trainee surveyor at King Sumners Partnership. With more than 10 years as an associate, Paul became a Partner of the Practice in 2009.