Party Wall Advice
Taylor Mitchell are Chartered Surveyors based in Cambridge. We offer residential surveying services throughout Cambridgeshire but also cover parts of Essex and Hertfordshire including the towns of Saffron Walden, Stanstead and Bishops Stortford.
We provide a range of surveying services including party wall advice and RICS Home Surveys. If you are in the process of purchasing a property, we can prepare both Level 2 (Homebuyer) and Level 3 (Building Survey) reports. Please call us on 01799 543532 to discuss which would be most suitable.
This page is where we answer party wall questions from the owners of Cambridgeshire properties. You will find over a hundred such queries below relating to party wall surveyors, fees, notices and party wall awards covering every type of dispute. You are welcome to submit a query via surveying@taylor-mitchell.co.uk.
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices, Party Wall Awards, Rights of Owners
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices, Rights of Owners, Surveyors
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices, Rights of Owners
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices, Rights of Owners
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices, Rights of Owners
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 >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Compensation, Rights of Owners