Section 115 – Rights of adjoining owner

London Building Act 1930

 

(1) Where a building owner proposes to exercise any of the foregoing rights with respect to party adjoining structures the adjoining owner may by notice require the building owner to build on any such party structure such chimney copings jambs or breasts or flues or such piers or recesses or any other like works as may fairly be required for the convenience of such adjoining owner and are specified in the notice and it shall be the duty of the building owner to comply with such requisition in all cases where the execution of the required works will not be injurious to the building owner or cause to him unnecessary inconvenience or unnecessary delay in the exercise of his right.

(2) Any difference between a building owner and an adjoining owner in respect of the execution of any such works shall 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