Party Wall Damages
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Bridgland v Earlsmead Estates Limited: unnecessary inconvenience
On 1 July 2015 His Honour Judge Grant handed down judgment in Bridgland v Earlsmead Estates Limited [2015] EWHC B8 (TCC) in which the Tec...
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Damages for trespassing foundations
In my last post I looked at what remedies were available to an adjoining owner when faced with underpinning that has encroached onto thei...
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Removing trespassing foundations
Over the last 18 months I have seen an increasing number of cases where the underpinning from one development has encroached upon adjoini...
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Party Walls & the “De Minimis” rule
Many of the rights under the Party Wall Act are very wide-ranging, and have the potential to catch many building owners unaware. For exam...
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How to calculate compensation for breaching the party wall act
Where the building owner infringes an adjoining owner’s property rights, for example by enclosing upon their wall, the surveyors ma...