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.
Here at Peter Barry, we serve hundreds of notices in any given year. Once a neighbour receives a notice they are a range of response options. Whilst to us as Chartered Surveyors these seem straight forward and obvious, we take plenty of phone calls that suggest that to the majority of people it is in fact not. This article will look to unravel much of the technical language and make the ...
Here at Peter Barry, we serve hundreds of notices in any given year. Once a neighbour receives a notice they are a range of ...
The desired outcome for any owner serving party wall notices is a consent - it allows them to take advantage of the benefits ...
The Party Wall Act leaves it up to the surveyors to agree which of the owners should pay their fees (which must be ...
This post was inspired by a question posed recently by a homeowner who was concerned about the neighbour’s new basement ...
It used to be common for party wall awards to include an obligation for the building owner to ‘maintain or cause ...
I often tell adjoining owners that have suffered damage as a result of party wall work not to, under any circumstances, ...
It’s the phrase that party wall surveyors rely on to reassure adjoining owners that they will not incur costs as a result of their neighbours’ works i.e. “In all normal circumstances, the fees of all/any appointed surveyors will be paid by the building owner”. The inquisitive adjoining owner will ask for clarification of what ‘normal circumstances’ are and it’s a good ...
It’s the phrase that party wall surveyors rely on to reassure adjoining owners that they will not incur costs as a result ...
If badly handled, party wall procedures can add many thousands of pounds to the costs of your building project but there are ...
As a recent graduate and Assistant Surveyor, a large part of my training was party wall related. As part of that training I ...
I have previously written about the option of an adjoining owner applying for an injunction where their neighbour has ...