Tied terraced house wall ownership

[drinkbuckfast]

Hi,

I think I'm right in assuming something here but I wanted to check. Basically our neighbour has been doing some DIY for a while, not an issue obviously. It seemed like he was knocking down a little porchway that he had outside his backdoor. We live in tiered terraced houses where half our wall is in half of our neighbours garden. Recently his DYI seems to have turned to hammering into the half of our wall thats in his garden. I've tried to illustrate this with the image below drawn in paint:


So we're the left most house. The black blocks are the houses, the greens being the garden. He seems to be (from the racket and vibrating of our walls) hammering into the wall marked with the red circle, is he allowed to do this without our permission? As although our wall sits in his garden its still technically our wall?

I'm not the sort've person to start disputes over nothing but obviously if whatever he's constructing lead to any problems in our house then who's going to pay for that?

I was just wondering if anyone had any knowledge on this.

Cheers.

[wales01man]

Re: Tied terraced house wall ownership

Be Polite and Be Nosey ask him whats he doing?

[Kati]

Re: Tied terraced house wall ownership

Could your house wall be classed as a Party Wall?? https://www.gov.uk/party-wall-etc-ac...s-a-party-wall

[des8]

Re: Tied terraced house wall ownership

Hi,

half our wall is in half of our neighbours garden....... although our wall sits in his garden

Go along with Wales's suggestion and make polite enquiries, but I'm intrigued to know the reason for the quoted statements.
From the details shown I would have assumed your wall forms the boundary between the two properties, but is actually built on your side of the boundary line.
Is there something on the land register to say your wall is on his land?

[drinkbuckfast]

Re: Tied terraced house wall ownership

Thanks to all posters

wales01 - this was going to be our next step. Will have a nosey later and see what it is he's doing.

Kati - it could very well be, looks like I need to do some reading there, thanks for the link. Although I'm not sure if its technically on his land which leads me to des8's post

des8 - a very good point. I would assume it isnt on his land, it just borders his land (i.e. his land ends where our wall begins) but I dont know for sure. I guess I need to break out the land registry stuff we have and do some reading.

[Kati]

Re: Tied terraced house wall ownership

Good luck finding out :tinysmile_grin_t:

[wales01man]

Re: Tied terraced house wall ownership

The wall and its Foundations and any overhang must be wholly on your land, Definetly have a chat they might be putting up something that could do damage or maybe not