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Hello,
I'm looking for some advice on a particularly tricky situation I've found myself in.
My neighbour wishes to build an extension at the rear of their house (it has already been passed by the council). They have proposed for their extension to be built on their half of the party wall.
However, the houses were built in the 1980s and are not flush, so they are staggered, with my property being longer and protruding further forward, whereas the neighbouring property is wider (the rear of our buildings are flush).
The issue I have, is that my building has been rendered, and this render has been present since the house was built. Now, I've measured the width of the front of the house to be 520cm and the back of the house, to the rendering, to be 520cm also. After talking to a party surveyor over the phone today though, he says these measurements are nul and void, because the front of the house is not attached to their house so these measurements cannot be used? Is this correct.
I am more than happy for my neighbour to chop some of the rendering out and put up their extension there if it is indeed true that the rendering has gone over. However, and the thing that is bugging me the most, regardless of the party wall, boundary wall, but their wall that will replace some of my rendering will essentially be under MY roof. And I say my roof, because my roof is higher than the neighbours, so when you look from the rear and follow the roof down, you will see some of their extension under our roof.
I hope this makes sense. It is so hard to explain and I'm going round in circles trying to get answers.
Can anyone help please? I can provide a picture if it helps.
Kind regards,
Jako
I'm looking for some advice on a particularly tricky situation I've found myself in.
My neighbour wishes to build an extension at the rear of their house (it has already been passed by the council). They have proposed for their extension to be built on their half of the party wall.
However, the houses were built in the 1980s and are not flush, so they are staggered, with my property being longer and protruding further forward, whereas the neighbouring property is wider (the rear of our buildings are flush).
The issue I have, is that my building has been rendered, and this render has been present since the house was built. Now, I've measured the width of the front of the house to be 520cm and the back of the house, to the rendering, to be 520cm also. After talking to a party surveyor over the phone today though, he says these measurements are nul and void, because the front of the house is not attached to their house so these measurements cannot be used? Is this correct.
I am more than happy for my neighbour to chop some of the rendering out and put up their extension there if it is indeed true that the rendering has gone over. However, and the thing that is bugging me the most, regardless of the party wall, boundary wall, but their wall that will replace some of my rendering will essentially be under MY roof. And I say my roof, because my roof is higher than the neighbours, so when you look from the rear and follow the roof down, you will see some of their extension under our roof.
I hope this makes sense. It is so hard to explain and I'm going round in circles trying to get answers.
Can anyone help please? I can provide a picture if it helps.
Kind regards,
Jako
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