Section 113 – Rights of owners of adjoining lands respecting erection of walls on line of junction

London Building Act 1930

Where lands of different owners adjoin and are owners of unbuilt on at the line of junction and either owner is about to build on any part of the line of junction the following provisions shall have effect

(1) If the building owner desires to build a party wall on the line of junction he may serve notice thereof on the adjoining owner describing the intended wall:

(2) If the adjoining owner consents to the building of a party wall the wall shall be built half on the land of each of the two owners or in such other position as may be agreed between the two owners:

(3) The expense of the building of the party wall shall be from time to time defrayed by the two owners in due proportion regard being had to the use made or to be made of the wall by the two owners respectively:

(4) If the adjoining owner does not consent to the building of a party wall the building owner shall not build the wall otherwise than as an external wall placed wholly on his own land:

(5) If the building owner does not desire to build a party wall on the line of junction but desires to build an external wall placed wholly on his own land he may serve notice thereof on the adjoining owner describing the intended wall:

(6) Where in either of the cases aforesaid the building owner proceeds to build an external wall on his own land he shall have a right at his own expense at any time after the expiration of one month from the service of the notice to place on the land of the adjoining owner below the level of the lowest floor the projecting footings of the external wall with concrete or other solid substructure thereunder making compensation to the adjoining owner or occupier for any damage occasioned thereby the amount of such compensation if any difference arises to be determined in the manner in which differences between building owners and adjoining owners are hereinafter directed to be determined.

London Building Act 1930

• Section 5 – Definitions
• Section 113 – Rights of owners of adjoining lands respecting erection of walls on line of junction
• Section 114 – Rights of building owner
• Section 115 – Rights of adjoining owner
• Section 116 – Rules as to exercise of rights by building and adjoining owners
• Section 117 – Settlement of difference between building and adjoining owners
• Section 118 – Power for building owner to enter premises
• Section 119 – Building owner to underpin adjoining owner’s property
• Section 120 – Rules as to expenses in respect of party structures
• Section 121 – Security to be given by building owner and adjoining owner
• Section 122 – Account of expenses to be delivered to adjoining owner
• Section 123 – Adjoining owner may object to account
• Section 124 – Building owner may recover if no appeal made
• Section 125 – Structure to belong to building owner until contribution paid
• Section 126 – Adjoining owner to be liable to expenses incurred on his requisition
• Section 127 – Saving for lights &c. in party walls