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 I moved into my property several years ago and only noticed a couple of years ago that the adjoining wall (at the front) to our properties has been built on my side of the boundary. The neighbour said it was difficult to dig the concrete out when they were laying the drive and the owner of my house at the time had agreed to the wall ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners
Question Please can you let me know under which circumstances a SOC must be undertaken by a residential party wall surveyor? Is it in fact a requirement? Answer It is not mandatory to have a schedule of condition attached to a Party Wall Award although it is considered to be good practice. The only scenario in which it would not be is if the ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Surveyors
Question My neighbour is refusing to supply a copy of a 'Party Wall Agreement". In the beginning I complained that I did not want my neighbour to build his extension I then found it was a permitted development extension. Upon hearing that I had no ability to stop him I gave up. He then sent me a copy of the party wall agreement after ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Party Wall Awards, Surveyors
Question Following a party wall dispute and after exchanging some correspondence with the Adjoining Owner’s surveyor, I decided not to proceed with the notifiable works. However, the said surveyor then sent me an invoice for the work he had accomplished for the surveyor. I have been advised by my own party wall surveyor that the Building ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Fees, Party Wall Awards, Surveyors
Question My garden and my neighbours garden is separated by a fence. We are intending to build the wall of our new extension alongside this fence, entirely on our land, without removing the fence. On the neighbours side of the fence, there is garden (not buildings). What section of the Act is applicable? Answer You will need to issue a Line of ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices
Question I am planning on restoring, underpinning re-pointing and rebuilding defective brickwork of my detached out building . I issued my neighbour with a party wall notice and we received a letter back asking what the party wall notice meant even though we had enclosed a cover letter explaining. We replied with a letter describing the ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Notices, Rights of Owners, Surveyors
Question Our neighbour at the rear of our garden is building a single storey structure 82cm behind the garden next to ours. The rainwater downpipe will be situated approx 85cm immediately behind the boundary between ourselves and our next door neighbour. There is a 100 year old brick wall running along the rear of our garden and that of our ... Read more >>
Categories: Adjoining Owners, Fees, Rights of Owners