Other Service: Party Walls and Basement Extensions
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Basement Extensions Conference 2016
Morrisons Solicitors are pleased to host the inaugural Basement Extensions Conference. The Conference will bring together leading experts...
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Basement Extensions | Compensation for Trespassing Underpinning
In our last blog ‘Basement Extensions | Removing Trespassing Underpinning’ we looked at the options available for removing underpi...
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Basement Extensions | Removing Trespassing Underpinning
You have obtained planning permission, dealt with building control, signed a contract with your builders, sorted the party wall awards an...
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Party Wall Notices must come before an Award…or do they?
It can come as a nasty surprise if your neighbour starts work to your party wall without sending you a party wall notice first. But does ...
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Privilege and the party wall surveyor’s file
In a number of cases I have advised on recently the party wall surveyors have declined to provide information from their file on that bas...
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Checking whether a party wall notice is valid
A common problem faced by surveyors is ascertaining whether or not a notice served by or on behalf of a building owner (or more rarely an...
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Limitation periods and the party wall act
This post started life as a discussion on LinkedIn that generated a fair bit of debate, and I thought it would be helpful to surmise what...
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Alternatives to party wall injunctions
If a building owner starts work without first serving the required notice under the Party Wall Act the adjoining owner can apply to the C...
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What factors should an adjoining owner’s surveyor consider wh...
Guest post by Justin Burns BSc (Hons) MRICS FFPWS of Peter Barry Party Wall Surveyors In many ways it’s the perfect job; freedom to set y...
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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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Party wall appeals – Review or rehearing?
Statutory appeals, such as an appeal under section 10(17) the Party Wall Act , can take one of two forms; an appeal by way of rehearing, ...
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Who is an adjoining owner?
Before the building owner starts work he must serve one or more notices on the “adjoining owner”. But who are they? The neighbours, right...
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Party Wall Injunctions & Costs – Nelson’s Yard Mana...
The Court of Appeal recently gave judgment in Nelson’s Yard Management Co v Eziefula [2013] EWCA Civ 235, a case concerning whether...
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Boundary disputes 3 – Adverse possession
In my last posts, I looked at how to establish who is the “paper owner” of the land subject to a boundary dispute; that is, t...
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Boundary disputes 2 – The surveyor’s report
In my last post I explained that the starting point in any boundary dispute is to find and analyse the first conveyance. In this post I w...
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Boundary disputes 1 – Find the first conveyance
Following on from my earlier post, this is the first in a series that will set out the approach that the Courts and Land Registry Adjudic...