Missed the Award’s appeal period?

If you miss the appeal window, you must shift mindset from “appeal” to “practical options”. First: confirm the dates When was the Award served? What is the statutory appeal window?If you are even close to the deadline, treat it as urgent and take legal advice...

Party Wall Termination

Projects change. Finance changes. Builders change. Sometimes the sensible choice is to stop. The party wall question then becomes: what does “stopping” mean in practice, and how do you stop without creating uncertainty or future cost? Scenario A: You served notice,...

Keep Party Wall Disputes Calm

A party wall “dispute” is often just a lack of written consent. The problem is not the label; the problem is how people behave once the process becomes formal. Disputes become slow and costly for predictable reasons. Here are the specific ones we see, and the fixes....

Party Wall Notice Delays, Blunders & Mistakes

At Simple Survey, we treat the Party Wall Notice as a compliance document and a neighbour-relations document at the same time. If it is wrong, unclear, or served on the wrong people, you do not merely “risk a technicality” — you typically create (1) a neighbour who is...