Owning your own home

my party wall surveyors

I'd suggest they know better than your neighbour (assuming they aren't cowboys)

There is no party wall of hers being fondled.
You would be obliged to pay for her surveyor if her walls were implicated, but by the sounds of it, they aren't.
So... sausages?

Full Cumberland to be honest.

Only one brand will suffice in this situation.

Plane routes. Fed up with the level of noise in Oval. 😔 Can anyone offer advice on how adequate a particular postcode is to avoid current, and hopefully future, plane noise? Seen route maps online but not sure if I am interpreting them right. We are looking to move and wouldn’t like to find out that we wasted our money in another noise club...

It can change. City are currently consulting on routes and expansion so you might want to look at that too...

http://www.airportwatch.org.uk/2019/06/residents-dismayed-by-london-city-expansion-plans-to-double-flight-numbers/

http://www.hacaneast.org.uk/home

If it helps, I’ve lived in oval for the last 6 years or so - we got new double glazed windows put in about 3 years ago and the difference has been amazing. Pre windows I was on the verge of moving out but I don’t think about it any more.

This map is pretty good for Heathrow (http://myneighbourhood.bksv.com/lhr/) - better places in south London are Wimbledon and earlsfield. I would expect more change in north London than south as the Heathrow 3rd runway (if it ever comes) will be built to the north of the existing two.

Assume you've checked the notice of adjacent excavation rules?

I hadn't, but again seeing as no work is going on within 3m of her house and nothing is being extended beyond the current out rigger there is nothing to report?

It looks like my current garden fence is slightly over her side than it should be but the architects have taken that into account and our cladding will stop at the party wall line.

if you aren't digging with 3/6m, carrying out notifiable works to the pw or building on the boundary, you have no need to notify her, therefore no responsibility to pay her surveyor.

get your surveyor to confirm that.

What’s the going rate per meter for an extension? My mother has been quoted £6,000 per sq meter in Winchester, as “you won’t believe the day rate here”, is this the expected figure?

What about the foundations though for the extension? I suspect he may need an agreement because of that issue.

Yeah dont think we are digging within 3m, and defo not the others... might just have to sit down with her and talk her through plans.

Then sausages.

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That sounds excessive... ours is around 2.5k and we are not going with particularly cheap folks (Design and build Architects).

if the new foundation goes below their foundation within 3m you will be.

Unless you do what a mate did, and build the foundation at the end of the garden, and cantilever the wall on a massive RSJ.

Same here. We got double glazed already, it made things better. But tbh don’t want to have to keep them close 24/7 and add AC to a flat just so a ludicrous number of planes can fly over me :) Maybe I am getting old and need GTFO to the mountains... Thanks for the links, very useful!

Thats crackers!

Foundations might just be within 3m, by about 1-2cm, so I guess technically she will need notice served, surveyors didn't mention that.

you now need to work out if you are going below their foundation with your excavations

I have a neighbour who has, much to my annoyance, disregarded all of this party wall stuff (no notice, plenty of taking the piss) as well as comprehensively ignored submitted/approved plans for anything near the boundary ‘because this works better’. It’s all permitted development so council planning don’t give a shit, do I have any recourse? Their rear extension has currently stalled because planning was denied (lol), but the foundations have already been dug along the boundary taking a fair chunk of our fence with it. Their loft and associated steels have annoyingly been finished, with the dormer on the party wall (but not building it up) instead of the ~foot in that was approved, blocking anything of equal width that we might want to do. Sigh.

Do you mean lower as in deeper in the ground?
We shouldn't be ing anywhere near their foundations to nee honest as there is 3m of house (maybe 2.99m) between where our work is getting done and their house.

if you are excavating below their foundation (ie down to a lower level than theirs) and you are within 3m of it, you will need to serve notice.

yes! that why the act is there. you can seek an injunction and if he has disregarded the act, they law will not be on his side.

But then what?! I worry whatever outcome is achieved will be outweighed by the expense and hassle of achieving it, and am instead attempting to channel my energies towards not caring (and mildly grumbling on the internet).

Thinking about it I dont think we are.... as the whole of the back is glass which won't new getting big foundations. The deeper foundations will be 5m away.

@6pt always the best option.