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.
Drafting your own party wall notices might seems like an obvious way to cut costs but the opposite is generally true. If your neighbour receives a notice that looks like something you’ve found on the internet, or got from your builder, alarm bells will ring. They will be more likely to contact a surveyor for advice and, when they’re told that you will be paying the fees, appoint ...
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 ...
It is not uncommon to discover that your neighbour has gone ahead, or is about to go ahead, with building works that fall ...
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 filtered through to the national media. The cause of the shortages seems to be a combination of Brexit, the pandemic and the recent blockage in the Suez Canal. The supply problems come at a time when there is strong demand for residential extensions as owners adapt to what ...
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 ...