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A party wall award hasn't been issued yet. Neither a surveyor nor a planning officer has visited the site yet, so all we have so far is a formal notice of the planned works, asking us to consent or reject within 14 days.
I guess if you have concerns then dissent and appoint your own surveyor at their expense. They will work with the neighbours surveyor to get the detail of the award sorted so the work can go ahead.
Would have thought it’s fairly unlikely to stop them from doing the work - if it’s permitted it’s going to happen anyway, all you are doing is delaying them and inflicting further costs on them. But maybe that’s what you want. You might feel that with another surveyor involved your interests are better protected and you might be correct on that.
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I'm not sure a plan will help much, but here's a rough one to show how things stand. The original drawings had the boundary line (and new party wall) as being across the actual boundary line by some margin – I now wonder if that was intentional, given the '150mm' comment. So that means they're allowed to build into our garden, reducing its already meagre square footage?
These are old two-up-two-down terraces, btw, to give an idea of house and garden widths.
We already have a single-storey extension that extends into our garden – and, in fact, so do the neighbours – it's currently a mirror image of ours. They're just rebuilding it (still single storey) to go right up to the boundary line, which we think will reduce the amount of light coming into our back room (it opens onto the garden via patio doors). I don't think there's any getting around that, so it's really just the impact on us of the foundation digging that's a concern.
Their surveyor won't deal with us at all – leaving us no option but to appoint our own at their expense, it seems.
A party wall award hasn't been issued yet. Neither a surveyor nor a planning officer has visited the site yet, so all we have so far is a formal notice of the planned works, asking us to consent or reject within 14 days.