Neighbour's extension

Mick Shrimpton

Hi,

Our next door neighbour is about to begin building an extension on to the back of his house. Our two houses are the middle properties in a four house terrace and the houses are quite small. Just outside the back door of our house is a concrete shed which is half in our garden constituting our half of the shed, and half in his garden. He has asked to demolish this building altogether and replace it by buying us a wooden barna shed, but as we are selling the property in the very near future, I disagreed to this.

So he has suggested that he will knock his side down, including taking off the parting wall, then build his parapit wall on the border of the properties, and build back our half of the shed onto this wall. It seems fairly straight forward.

I'm just wondering, before I let him go ahead with it, is there anything I'm not covering myself on here. Our property will be going on the market in the next couple of months and I want as little disruption as possible to ensure as fast a sale as possible. How can I make sure we dont get done here, is it a call to my solicitor?

Thanks for reading

muffler

Best advice I can offer is to get a local architect/technician/engineer to assess the proposal initially and then have him there when the works are being done. Building on or replacing a share boundary/party wall is not unusual (Tom Jones said that ) however I would also advise you run it past your solicitor and be guided by him in relation to the legal aspects of the proposal.

ircoha

Muffler is on the ball here: {its not unusual ]


However just a few thoughts: I assume the ext is less than 40 sq meteres so no planning was required.

Colinthedrummer wrote:

Hi,

Our next door neighbour is about to begin building an extension[ does the extension go down the garden beyond the line of the extension or will they match? ] on to the back of his house. Our two houses are the middle properties in a four house terrace and the houses are quite small. Just outside the back door of our house is a concrete shed which is half in our garden constituting our half of the shed, and half in his garden. He has asked to demolish this building altogether and replace it by buying us a wooden barna shed, but as we are selling the property in the very near future, I disagreed to this.[ Just consider: would the garden look better with a spanking new garden shed maybe away from the back door and perhaps you can replace it with a nice deck: depends on your aspect/ size of garden etc and could tie in well with what u are proposing to let him do: nice looking gardens do add value ]

So he has suggested that he will knock his side down, including taking off the party wall, then build his parapit wall on the border of the properties, and build back our half of the shed onto this wall. It seems fairly straight forward.[ the boundary line of the properties must be down the middle of the parapet wall, so that u, or the new owner can build similiar to ur neighbour. access will be necessary form your side during construction: I presume u are happy with that: will it be plastered, perhaps painted. I presume the parapet wall will be a little higher than the roof of extension: capping should throw water back into him

I'm just wondering, before I let him go ahead with it, is there anything I'm not covering myself on here. Our property will be going on the market in the next couple of months and I want as little disruption [ there will be disruption as the foundations for the wall will come at least 10 to 12 inches into your garden] as possible to ensure as fast a sale as possible. How can I make sure we dont get done here, is it a call to my solicitor?

Thanks for reading

Mick Shrimpton

ircoha wrote:

Muffler is on the ball here: {its not unusual ]


However just a few thoughts: I assume the ext is less than 40 sq meteres so no planning was required.

Yes you're right, no planning was required.

Oh and thanks muffler