PartyWall Act

Newhousetenby

Dear All,

I have just had my home extension planning approved and passed.

My neighbour has asked me for a party wall act which i have done and have paid for,.

My surveyor and my neighbours are sharing the same surveyor to make life easy.

My surveyor took a long time like 3 weeks to award me my party wall. I in the meantime can to a agreement with my neighbour and we started work before i was awarded my party wall act.

Am i in any danger as we have dug the foundation and already built the extension and my neighbour is also now happy as nothing has fallen and where he had a wooden shed we have taken this down for him and built hima rplacement brick wall please help me i dont want to be in any trouble afterwards as i want to move into my house asap

Newhousetenby

Can some one please help me on this

tyllwyd

I'm not sure I understand your question. I guess that by a party wall act you mean a party wall act notice? I've never had to use one of these, but I'd assume that as long as your neighbour is happy with the work, and you've got any planning permission and building regulations approval that you need, you can get all the paperwork sorted out.

Is there a particular issue that is worrying you? Can you explain it to us?

sonastin

As I understand it, the Party Wall Act sets out a structured procedure to follow to resolve disputes relating to shared boundaries. If your neighbour is happy for you to get on with your extension, there is no dispute and no need to resort to the Party Wall Act to resolve it.

If your agreement with your neighbour differs from the surveyor's recommendations you should really get that agreement in writing. Otherwise your neighbour could change his mind again and you would need to revert to whatever the Surveyor provided to resolve the dispute.

Doozergirl

The party wall act is an odd thing.

It is there to keep your neighbour happy. As above, if your neighbour is happy then you have no issue.

If they are not happy, then the most anyone can do is ask you to stop until agreement is reached again.

Pretty pointless IMO. The worst that can ever happen is, erm , nothing. Maybe I should suggest that as one of those waste of space laws.

lee636

sonastin wrote: »

As I understand it, the Party Wall Act sets out a structured procedure to follow to resolve disputes relating to shared boundaries. If your neighbour is happy for you to get on with your extension, there is no dispute and no need to resort to the Party Wall Act to resolve it.

If your agreement with your neighbour differs from the surveyor's recommendations you should really get that agreement in writing. Otherwise your neighbour could change his mind again and you would need to revert to whatever the Surveyor provided to resolve the dispute.

Same would apply if your neighbour moved and the new buyers looked over the paperwork and wanted it to conform to the original spec if its now different.