Notices

Question We have planning permission for an extension to our house and the side wall extension will lie on the border between our property and the property next door. Having spoken to the neighbour I thought owned the side access and garden on the party wall boundary, I have found that in fact the side access and garden are communal to many ... Read more >>

Question We have recently had some roof repairs done on a flat roof of a terraced house.  This flat roof shares a parapet wall with our neighbour.    As part of this work our builder (unbeknownst to us) put a bit of leading over the parapet to stop water entering the party wall.    Our neighbour, for aesthetic reasons, wants this ... Read more >>

Question I know that my neighbours are going to be as disruptive as possible when it comes to the party wall so I have two questions: Does the agreement stand for all of the works from start to finish i.e. bathrooms, first & second fix or just the work that is to be carried out on the party wall i.e. putting the steal beam into the ... Read more >>

Question Over two years ago, our downstairs neighbours served a party wall notice on us as they were extending under our flat.  The work finally took place and finished about six months ago.  We did sign a basic party wall agreement and their surveyor came and did an inspection of our bathroom, under which the work was to take place. The work ... Read more >>

Question We are planning an extension to our house and the side wall of the extension will lie on the border between our property and the property next door.  We believe we need to service party wall notice for this.  The owners of the house next door will soon be moving out and tenants moving in.  Do we need to serve notice to both owner and ... Read more >>

Question Here is the story. We live in a terraced house and the neighbour next door wants to build an extension at the back of his house. At first he said nothing will be on my side of the boundary which is all fine so long he can build what he wants on his land. Now he is saying that as he wants to have the outside wall ending just on the the ... Read more >>

Question We have recently received planning permission from the council to build an extension above our garage and bring the garage forward to allow us to extend the kitchen into the rear. I live in a semi with the garage to the side, this is attached to another house which is the reason we asked him if he would allow us to do the project?  He ... Read more >>

Question We are having an extension built and the unattached adjoining neighbour has not consented to the section 6 third party wall notice issued (they are concerned our excavations could aggrevate their historical and now stable subsidence issues). Our foundations are planned to be 1.3 metres deep and will be within 3 metres of our neighbour's ... Read more >>

I have just added an extension to my house which is completely in my part of the property and I made retaining wall, which again is in my boundary and is 1 metre deep and 1/2 metre wide , the adjoining property which is a council house and a tenant has been in it for 2 years.Before starting I asked the council  whether i needed to serve party ... Read more >>

QuestionWe live in a hilly area, and the question concerns a dry stone wall about 30 feet long separating a stretch of unadopted road (at one  level) from a children’s nursery play area at a lower level, some ten feet or so lower down. The road is in need of repair, but since it is unadopted we have had no joy with the local council, and so ... Read more >>