I want to know...

margaretclare

I want a garden wall built between us and next door - the other half of the semi. 10 feet long and 6 feet high. Either brick, or some kind of blocks - I intend to paint it white and grow plants up it.

I need to have an idea of cost, just so that I can budget. All the brickies around here are desperately busy. I don't mind so long as it gets done before winter, but I need to know what kind of a price I'm looking at.

Margaret

Nile

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HugoSP

I can't comment much on cost but I suspect you'll be looking at a few hundred.

What you must do is talk to your next door neigbours about it. I assume you will be paying for it and it will be built your side of the boundary. If the current fence is his then it will be his side of the boundary.

Also, your neigbours permission is essential under the Party Wall Act. Believe it or not you need your neigbour's consent under this act to do what you propose. If he does not want you to build it for any reason, getting consent or the right to build it can be VERY expensive.

In any case, a good chat with your neigbour agreeing what and where it is to be built. If he is in favour of this wall he may consent it to be built on the boundary as opposed to your side, and he may agree to pay for half.

margaretclare

HugoSP wrote: »

I can't comment much on cost but I suspect you'll be looking at a few hundred.

What you must do is talk to your next door neigbours about it. I assume you will be paying for it and it will be built your side of the boundary. If the current fence is his then it will be his side of the boundary.

Also, your neigbours permission is essential under the Party Wall Act. Believe it or not you need your neigbour's consent under this act to do what you propose. If he does not want you to build it for any reason, getting consent or the right to build it can be VERY expensive.

In any case, a good chat with your neigbour agreeing what and where it is to be built. If he is in favour of this wall he may consent it to be built on the boundary as opposed to your side, and he may agree to pay for half.

Oh yes. It has all been discussed and agreed.

What happened was - my late husband planned to build this, back in 1991, he'd have built it himself, we had a different neighbour then. When he died my son-in-law put up a fence for me, which is now showing its age. We've recently replaced some fence panels further down the garden and neighbour commented on the fence looking a bit tatty and unsightly. I told him that we'd planned for years to replace it with a brick wall. He thinks it's a very good idea. He works for the council's parks and gardens department and has been asking around among the guys he works with, but none of them can build a wall that big - they could if it was a little garden feature or something.

I know it will be a 'few hundreds', I am not bothered about that, because one of my annuities is paid every September. I'd just like to have some idea about how many hundreds!

Thanks for your help.

Margaret

margaretclare

HugoSP wrote: »

I can't comment much on cost but I suspect you'll be looking at a few hundred.

What you must do is talk to your next door neigbours about it. I assume you will be paying for it and it will be built your side of the boundary. If the current fence is his then it will be his side of the boundary.

Also, your neigbours permission is essential under the Party Wall Act. Believe it or not you need your neigbour's consent under this act to do what you propose. If he does not want you to build it for any reason, getting consent or the right to build it can be VERY expensive.

In any case, a good chat with your neigbour agreeing what and where it is to be built. If he is in favour of this wall he may consent it to be built on the boundary as opposed to your side, and he may agree to pay for half.

Thank you very much for this. I've since looked up the Party Wall Act (thank goodness for Google!) and I'm printing the relevant leaflet to keep with all the rest of the house documents. There appears to be an illustration of the kind of thing we're hoping to build.

Neighbours in other half of the semi are absolutely happy about what we plan to do. Not sure what happens if they move and someone else moves in - we're surrounded by young couples who tend to move quicker than we do.

This Act is obviously one of the things that John Prescott amused himself doing, as if we weren't regulated and tied hand and foot already!

Margaret