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 The Government Explanatory Booklet lists certain jobs as being so minor they do not warrant the serving of a notice: Drilling into a party wall to fix plugs and screws for ordinary wall units or shelving Cutting into a party wall to add or replace recessed electric wiring and sockets Replastering Which of the following works would you put in the same category? ...
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 ...
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 studwork wall against the existing party parapet wall (see sketch below) – does he have a right of access on to the roof of the Adjoining Owner’s property to apply hanging tiles/flashings? Could the Adjoining Owner object to such an arrangement on the basis that it ...
Question An Owner plans to add an additional floor to the back addition of his late Victorian terraced house by raising a ...
I received an email earlier this week from a lady who was concerned that her neighbour was going to use The Party Wall Act ...
Complying with the Party Wall Act can get really expensive if the adjoining properties are converted flats. Take this ...
It’s always difficult to advise people who call us up when a neighbour has started work which comes within the scope of ...