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If the work was signed off in '95 then it's fine. If you were selling a house and the buyer turned round and said "I'm going to do an extension. Would you organise and pay for the foundations to be dug, oh and put up with the inconvenience of having the work done while you're still living there?" You'd probably tell them to fuck right off.
To put it mildly, I think they are chancing their arm because they are a guaranteed buyer in a potentially uncertain market. But still they need to be told to fuck off.
Bobbo
Our buyers have gotten a bee in their bonnet about the wall knocked through between the front room and living room of victorian terrace (done sometime before 1995) bc they want to build a loft conversion. They're saying that we need to get a structural engineer in for a GSI and that we should pay for it. I'm 99% sure it's fine, it looks like every other version of this you've seen before and zero sign of movement/issue, the process would mean removing the plaster etc and so is not a neat job. Am I being unreasonable here in saying we don't want to this and certainly not pay for it? The EA says they won't pay and will pull out otherwise and so is advising we pay - I assume this is bc they have 3 properties in the chain and are trying to keep things going. I'm thinking to just re-list once the lockdown is over as these buyers just seem unreasonable at this point.