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Presumably your pal’s place is 1st floor and the chimney breast was removed on the ground floor, and not necessarily supported afterwards?
I’d hazard a guess it’s more likely to be the two floors-worth (a few tons) of bricks causing the cracks than a coincidence.
Whenever we’ve removed ground floor stacks it’s been done with labc approval and engineer’s calcs to accompany the 3 steel beams put in to support the remaining chimney...
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It was done in the past year or two. There's no PWA (upstairs and downstairs each own a share of freehold so probably not viewed as necessary at the time).
There's no guarantee that it was the chimney breast removal that's caused the problem but seems a bit of a coincidence. He's just trying to work out what should have been done, obviously if it should have been signed off by building control and wasn't or they used the wrong support there's some leverage there.