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.
Question If a Building Owner appoints a surveyor on behalf of an Adjoining Owner in accordance with Section 10(4) can that surveyor give consent for special foundations on behalf of the Adjoining Owner (or can they if it is in the best interests of both buildings)? Where an Adjoining Owner will not give consent for Special Foundations can they also object to the mass concrete underpinning ...
Question If a Building Owner appoints a surveyor on behalf of an Adjoining Owner in accordance with Section 10(4) can that ...
Question An Adjoining Owner is served with a notice just days before they are due to exchange contracts on the sale of ...
Question The Government Explanatory Booklet lists certain jobs as being so minor they do not warrant the serving of a ...
Question A leasehold owner of a ground floor flat proposes to underpin the rear external walls (not party walls) of their ...
Question What factors should a Surveyor consider when setting the hourly rate to use when calculating expenses for ...
Question I recently arranged to meet a Building Owner’s surveyor on site to prepare a schedule of condition only to find ...
Question Can a Building Owner cast a new mass concrete foundation above and alongside the projecting concrete foundation to an existing party wall and connect the two foundations with a dowel (known as ‘overpinning’) without serving notice? This is another question that was raised at a recent FPWS North London forum meeting which I helped to organise. I would welcome the views of other ...
Question Can a Building Owner cast a new mass concrete foundation above and alongside the projecting concrete foundation to ...
Question An Owner of a terraced house wishes to convert his original first floor balcony to an additional room. The balcony ...
Question An Owner plans to add an additional floor to the back addition of his late Victorian terraced house by raising a ...