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 >>

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 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 >>

Question We have planning permission for a ground floor extension to our Victorian semi. At the back of the house, and our adjoining neighbour's house, are two small outhouses divided by an existing party wall. Ideally we would like to demolish the existing party wall at the same time as our outhouse and build the new wall for the extension ... Read more >>

Question I have a 1.2 metre lean to built before I moved into my teraced house 16 years ago.  It has a poly carbonate roof and is supported by 2x2 wooden batons.  One side baton is screwed directly into a party wall shared with my neighbour. I now want to knock down the enclosed lean to and build a conversatory, but extend it out by 1.4 metres ... Read more >>

Question We have planning permission to build a single storey rear extension and have been given permission to build along the line of the boundary with our neighbour. A wooden fence, which according to the land registry is owned by our neighbour, marks the line of the boundary. It is highly unlikely that our foundations for the extension will ... Read more >>

Question My question relates to a party wall that was made of concrete blocks and has fallen down after 40 years. There were no footings for the wall and therefore insurance would not pay out. Our neighbours who share the party wall live behind and slightly above us. Their garden is about 5 feet higher than ours so now we have a vertical drop ... 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. Do we need to serve a notice to the neighbours adjoined via the party ... Read more >>