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.
If your neighbour is proposing building works that fall under the remit of the Party Wall Act 1996, there is a clear legal process to be followed to protect the interests of both the Building Owner and the Adjoining Owner(s). However, this is a complex piece of legislation that can raise a lot of questions, many of which we have tried to address in our FAQ section. When it comes to finding out ...
If your neighbour is proposing building works that fall under the remit of the Party Wall Act 1996, there is a clear legal ...
The Party Wall Act is a slightly complicated piece of legislation, and the industry is essentially self-regulating. This ...
We’ve been hearing about building material shortages anecdotally for a few months now but more recently reports have ...
Of all the types of property extension the conversion of a loft space is one of the more affordable in comparison to side ...
Over the last couple of years we’ve put on a series of lunchtime CPD sessions covering party wall procedures for ...
Completing the party wall awards is often the last part of the jigsaw required to allow work to commence on site and the ...
While the current social distance regulations remain in place, surveyors are under pressure to spend as little time inside occupied properties as possible. One way of doing that is to rely upon a photographic only schedule of condition instead of the traditional written record but can it ever be as useful? Prior to the pandemic the primary document in a schedule of condition was the written ...
While the current social distance regulations remain in place, surveyors are under pressure to spend as little time inside ...
An amendment to the General Permitted Development Order which allows property owners to add up to 2 further storeys to their ...
A recent survey found that almost three in five (59%) said that after lockdowns lift, they would like to work from home some ...
Section 10(12) of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 confirms that an award may cover the ‘time and manner of executing any ...