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They’re utter cunts.
We even got letters urging us to engage some bullshit firm as party wall surveyors to protect us from our own fucking planning application lol
The worst party wall surveyor I ever came across tried to claim four times the fee the third surveyor ended up awarding him having not even agreed the award by that point. They had even managed to convince the adjoining owner who engaged them to be on the hook for some of it. Needless to say they had previously been in front of a judge for the same thing.
Our neighbour seemed a bit concerned about our pending extension and the need for party wall surveyors etc.
I wasn't sure why until she came round for a chat and brought a sheaf of letters she'd been receiving from companies as soon as our planning permission came through.
I didn't realise there was such an ambulance-chasing industry around scaring people whose neighbours are getting work done into thinking it's going to be a nightmare.
Capitalism <3