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Glws
Bastard neighbours/OYOH thread crossover rant.
Our flat is the top 2 floors of a Victorian terrace and we share the freehold between all 4 flat owners. Our downstairs neighbour is having works done to improve their flat which they assured us did not include the removal of any structural walls. We made sure that we could see the architects drawings before any work started and lo and behold, a structural wall beneath our flat is coming out. There are also changes to the height and position of windows in the flat, I don’t believe these are permitted developments for a flat in Hackney and they certainly don’t have planning approval. At one point he told us that he was planning to put a cantilevered balcony sticking out the back over our downstairs neighbours rear door so that he could bbq outside, which would of course mean that we’d have to close every rear window of our flat and make the balcony unusable for large parts of the summer.
Insisted on a party wall agreement, of which the surveyor attended our flat on Sunday. No award has yet been received or reviewed by us, yet I just bumped into him in the hallway and “he’ll let us know when works are starting, within the next couple of days”. For clarity, works are starting this week, he’s not planning on notifying us of a future date within the next couple of weeks. Also bumped into an electrician and there are currently the dulcet tones of an angle grinder/circ saw coming up through the floorboards