by Simple Survey | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorised
If you want your project to start on time (and stay neighbourly), your best tactic is to make it easy for your adjoining owner to say “yes.” Here’s a practical, fast-track playbook that consistently turns perfectly valid Party Wall Notices into quick consents—without...
by Simple Survey | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorised
Choosing the right party wall surveyor can be the difference between a smooth, neighbourly process and a slow, expensive dispute. While most practitioners aim to do things properly, we routinely encounter avoidable mistakes that delay projects, inflate fees and, in...
by Simple Survey | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorised
Section 2(2)(b) is short but powerful. It gives a Building Owner the right to “repair or demolish and rebuild” a party structure (including a party wall or party fence wall) where it is defective or in disrepair. Crucially, when this section is used, the costs don’t...
by Simple Survey | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorised
If the Party Wall Act is the rulebook, Section 15 is the bit that tells you how to legally hand the rulebook to your neighbour. It sets out the only permitted ways to serve (i.e., deliver) Party Wall Notices and Awards. Get service wrong and even a perfectly drafted...
by Simple Survey | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorised
Section 10 is the engine room of the Party Wall Act. It only “switches on” when an Adjoining Owner dissents to a valid Party Wall Notice (or simply doesn’t respond within 14 days, which the Act treats as a dissent). From that moment, you’re in the Act’s formal...
by Simple Survey | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorised
If your neighbour has already built a new wall for their extension and you now want to build off it rather than erecting your own independent wall, you’ll encounter the Party Wall concept of “making use”—often called enclosure costs. Far from being a penalty, this...
