Cotswold Surveying - Chartered
Surveyors - Party Wall Act, Party Wall Award Page
Independent Chartered Surveyors
Since 1991
Party Wall Basics:
The Party Wall Act 1996 brought
the rest of the UK in line with the procedures already in place
in London.
Basically, since 1997 if you've
wanted to build on or extend or alter your property, and that
work involves altering, cutting into, raising, digging alongside
etc a wall, boundary wall, floor (or similar) that joins you to
another property - this can even be a garden wall - then it is
quite likely that you must have to go through the process(es)
prescribed by the Party Wall Act.
The reasoning behind the Party
Wall Act was to help avoid expensive legal disputes between neighbours
over such matters, and there is a widely held view that this has
been a successful piece of legislation. Some kinds of work like
simple maintenance - for example redecorating - do not come under
The Party Wall Act.
If proposed work comes under
that outlined in The Party Wall Act, then agreement must be obtained
before the work starts.
Party Wall surveyors should have
specialist knowledge of and offer the service of taking you through
the Party Wall Act process, whilst acting impartially.
Cotswold Surveying have been
carrying out Party Wall jobs since 1998, and would be happy to
discuss these with you. We usually operate within Gloucestershire,
North Bristol and North Wiltshire, but have carried out Party
Wall work as far away as London.
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PARTY WALL GUIDE
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