Party Wall Advice - Notices
So what are the rights of an adjoining owner who has just received a Notice with regards proposed works to be undertaken by his neighbour ('the building owner)'? Can he simply refuse to allow the works to go ahead? The answer to that is not as straightforward as it may first appear. Listed below are various possibilities: Q 1) The building owner has served notice to build an extension with the wall to be built wholly on the building owner's land but has stated in his notice that the foundations will straddle the boundary line. The adjoining owner is concerned about damage to the lawn of his back garden should the proposed wall be built. A 1) The adjoining owner cannot prevent the wall being built wholly in the building owner's land, however he can usually insist that the foundations do not straddle the boundary line but rather, are constructed as 'eccentric' ones wholly on the land of the building owner. Only where the building owner can show ...