Welcome to Peter Barry’s blog posts. You’ll find a range of topics focussing on issues that are important to our clients where we try to answer the questions that we regularly get asked.
While party wall surveyors do not have the jurisdiction to determine boundaries, we are sometimes required to authorise works which interact with a boundary. We therefore need to have a good understanding of how boundaries are determined and an awareness of when disputes do and do not prevent us from completing the task that we were appointed to complete. Legal Boundaries Let’s start with ...
While party wall surveyors do not have the jurisdiction to determine boundaries, we are sometimes required to authorise ...
This is part of our series on court judgements that significantly changed the way that surveyors administer the Act. The ...
This is part of our series on court judgments that significantly changed the way that surveyors administer the Act. The ...
Over the coming months we’ll be summarising some of the party wall cases that have been determined by the courts. When ...
What is Section 11(11) of the Party Wall Act? Section 11(11) of the Party Wall Act addresses the financial aspect of ...
When we receive an enquiry from a property owner who wishes to undertake work, our knowledgeable team will review the ...
The new Labour Government have revealed proposals that will encourage home owners to extend their property upwards by making it much harder for Council's to reject planning permission. Currently, permission can be rejected on account of an additional storey simply being too high or because neighbours do not have additional stories. The vast majority on London's housing stock is Victorian, ...
The new Labour Government have revealed proposals that will encourage home owners to extend their property upwards by making ...
Drafting your own party wall notices might seems like an obvious way to cut costs but the opposite is generally true. If ...
The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 has been with us for nearly thirty years but it is becoming clear that a large section of the ...
For surveyors who undertake this form of work day in day out, it can be easy to assume that there is good general ...