Advice please! Neighbors stove chimney restricting attic conversion

123cork123

Hi everyone
I would really appreciate any advice please. We live in a semi detached house and are looking to extend including converting attic.we love our house but it’s too small currently for our growing family and we are definitely not in a position to move. Last year our adjoining neighbors got work done including putting a wood burning stove right next to the boundary/connecting wall. At the time we advised them this could affect our future plans of converting attic but they said once they were conforming to regulations as houses currently were they were going ahead. The chimney is 1m above the gutter and top floor windows. We could not put velux windows in where we would be like as it wouldn’t be 2.3m from their chimney. I also don’t like the idea of putting a window at the same level as their chimney anyway as when the wind blows in a certain direction smoke blows across our roof and I feel this would be a health hazard.
I wanted to check if they were in fact keeping to regulations as I read somewhere that chimney must be 2.3m from another dwelling not just 2.3m from a window (the chimney is about 50cm from our house) or am I wrong??
Is there anything I could ask them to do with their chimney to accommodate velux windows in the attic??
Any advice would be very much appreciated! X

sydthebeat

the 2.3 m refers to a window, not to a house.

The resolution here is for you to offer to increase the height of their chimney to more than 1.0 m over the top of your proposed rooflight.

Doop

Google 'TGD' ...Part J 2014 has the relevant sections regarding positioning of flues.

Angry bird

There is a planning exemption for flues etc, after that its a building regulations matter as pointed out above.