Adjoining Owners

Question September 2009 for Party Wall works our neighbour/Building Owner wishes to carry out.  The Award states that upon signing of the Award the Building Owner shall pay the Adjoining Owners' Surveyor's fee, however to date this has not been paid. Last week, on 8th July 2010, the Building Owner commenced digging the foundations for multiple ... Read more >>

Question I have received notice for excavation and building work under section 6 of the Party Wall Act 1996 from our neighbours. Under the Act I have the right as an  'Adjoining Owner' to be compensated for any loss or damage caused by relevant works. If damage appears on my property after the original 'Building Owner' moves on (i.e. sells the ... Read more >>

Question My neighbour verbally informed me he was having some building work done, and said it was a case of a week of floorboards being taken up, followed by some disturbance as the bathroom was renovated and tiles laid. No party wall notice was served. A week into building work my bathroom ceiling leaked through from the overflow pipe from the ... Read more >>

Question We are the leaseholders of a 2 story maisonette in a terraced property composed of 4 storeys. The freeholder is the Local Borough.   We are planning to do some work (demolition of an internal partition wall on the lower ground floor) and the structural engineer suggested to put in a beam to bear the load of the above floor and ... Read more >>

Question Having read the questions & answers on your website it seems quite clear that I must invoke the Party Wall Act as I will be excavating within 3m of our neighbour's property and below the level of their foundations. However, I would like to ask that is the Act relevant to all buildings such as conservatories, garages etc.? Also ... Read more >>

Question We live in a first floor conversion flat and are having our chimney breast removed from a party wall and are using gallows brackets to secure it. We have checked that the ground floor flat does not have a gas fire below but do we need to serve a notice to the neighbours adjoined via the party wall? Answer Yes, the removal of chimney ... Read more >>

Question We are the leaseholders of a 2 story maisonette of a terraced property composed of 4 storeys. The freeholder is the Local Borough. We are planning to do some work (demolition of an internal partition wall on the lower ground floor) and the structural engineer suggested to put in a beam to bear the load of the above floor and ... Read more >>

Question My neighbour does not want me to build my single storey piled extension.  He seems to think that the planner who saw him when doing the site survey before granting planning consent, inferred that even if planning permission were granted we could not build the extension without going on his land. This is not the case there is plenty of ... Read more >>

Question  I have a semi-detached property of which the adjoining property is and has been derelict for some 25 years. The owners have been in family dispute for some time.  I have over the years improved and developed my property, whilst always ensuring the correct procedures  i.e. party wall notices etc.  I have extended the front of my ... Read more >>

Question Our house and neighbour's are separated by 2 drives.  We are building to about 635mm from boundary (a single storey side return extension ).  Our neighbour's drive (if same size as ours) is approx 2285mm.  Therefore, we are within the 3m rule and should have issued a Section 6 Notice, but we didn't realise we needed to.  I realise, ... Read more >>