Raising a party wall

spiritus

We live in a terraced house and our neighbour has put forward plans to build an extension.

They have other members of their family on the street who have built similar extensions.

Their plans state that the extension's side walls will not be visible as it will be built between the walls but I have a strong suspicion based on the other extensions built by their family that their extension's side walls WILL be visible but they will then raise the boundary wall a couple of feet to cover the side of the extension.

This will leave is with a boundary wall extension that will be unsightly from our side as they would have to use unmatching bricks as well as the fact that the height of the walls would be somewhat disproportionate to the building.

On scanning the Party Wall Act documents it appears at first glance that they are indeed entitled to raise the boundary wall but this has me thinking of some extreme situations such as

1/ If they're entitled to raise the boundary wall then do we have the same right to extend beyond their extension on the basis that if they have the right then we should have an equal right to do what we want with the wall ?

2/ The Party Wall Act also allows for a household to raise a party wall downwards. So what happens if one neighbour wants to raise it and the other wants to lower it ?

Finally, does the raising of the boundary wall need to be included in the planning application or can they simply do it whenever they want ?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

fluffymuffy

Why do your neighbours need Planning Permission?

keystone

How do you know your neighbours will not be using matching brickwork?

Cheers

spiritus

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Why do your neighbours need Planning Permission?

I wouldn't know. We received a letter from the Council informing us of the application.

We're basing our assumption on the brickwork on the other two house on the street owned by the same family. In both cases matching bricks were not used-possibly due to the age of the house and thereby the bricks themselves.

keystone

Some friends of mine had an extension done on a prominent (in visual terms) 1930s property and the very nice council lady insisted that they used bricks of such and such a type and of such and such a colour in order that the extension blended in with the remainder of the house.

Don't guess and your post is, frankly, full of guesswork. All to easy to get yourself in a lather over guesswork.

"Cuppa tea and a sticky" time methinks for a nice friendly chat about it.

Cheers