EXTENSIONS

Planning an extension or a New Build? You may need to serve a Party Wall Notice on your adjoining owner.

Contact us for help with the process of serving a Party Wall Notice to Party Wall Awards.

You maybe wondering why you have to serve a notice under the Party Wall etc Act for excavations. This is where the ‘etc’ party of the Party Wall etc Act 1996 comes in. This part of the act requires you to serve notice for excavations within 3m and sometimes 6m of your neighbour’s property whether it be their house, garage, outbuilding, shed, or even a garden wall.

Once you have served notice your Adjoining Owner or owners will have 14 days from receipt of the notices to respond with a consent or dissent. Failure to respond will be considered a deemed dissent, and a further 10-day Notice will be issued.

This will prompt them to either appoint one of our surveyors as the agreed surveyor or select their own. After this period, you will be your obligation under the Act to appoint a surveyor for them (something we can do for you). In this case, you will be responsible for both surveyors’ fees.

A Party Wall Award is a legal document made by a surveyor or surveyors to settle a dispute and authorise the proposed works that fall under the Party Wall etc Act 1996