Neighbour extension overhang

st@nners · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:25

Should i be concerned that my neighbours extension eaves/ guttering is overhanging the boundary wall?

I just don't want to fall foul of it further down the line, if i were to sell etc

https://imgur.com/a/HpSbkfA

dlockers · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:40

booyaka · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:40

not really the clearest of pictures....hard to tell what i'm looking at....

Is the brick work on the ground your boundary line? Or the fence?

st@nners · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:43

booyaka said:
not really the clearest of pictures....hard to tell what i'm looking at....

Is the brick work on the ground your boundary line? Or the fence?

Yeh I didn't take the best picture unfortunately. The face of the brick wall is the boundary. The extension construction is over the top of the wall

Slam62 · 22 Sep 2021 at 11:59

Do you mean that tiny bit where it overhangs your drive?

psd99 · 22 Sep 2021 at 12:04

difficult to tell but looks like its them top bricks that worry u

Why has it been built this way then?

Bug One · 22 Sep 2021 at 12:05

I'd be very concerned. Why do people do this. As if taking every last centimetre is going to make any difference at all to an extension, compared to the problems it's going to cause down the line.

ci_newman · 22 Sep 2021 at 12:48

What did their party wall agreement state?

Blackjack Davy · 22 Sep 2021 at 14:06

Bug One said:
I'd be very concerned. Why do people do this. As if taking every last centimetre is going to make any difference at all to an extension, compared to the problems it's going to cause down the line.

Happens all the time place where I used to work the plans for a neighbouring garden showed a building well away from the boundary and it got approved it actually got built slap bang against the boundary wall even had dollops of mortar all over the top of said wall and down the other side

st@nners · 22 Sep 2021 at 15:20

ci_newman said:
What did their party wall agreement state?

What party wall agreement? Should this construction have one? This wall is between their land and my drive, my house is stood away at the other side of the drive.

booyaka · 22 Sep 2021 at 16:01

Some clearer pictures would make life easier....

What's yours?
What's theirs?
etc etc

Bug One · 22 Sep 2021 at 16:13

st@nners said:
What party wall agreement? Should this construction have one? This wall is between their land and my drive, my house is stood away at the other side of the drive.

If the wall is on the boundary - they need an agreement in place. How would they maintain it without coming onto your land. What if you wanted to build an extension on your land and build off of it your side? What's to stop you - the facing side is technically on your land.

Or as has been on here recently - what if you wanted to install a gate, and the builder drills into their wall.

DB_SamX · 22 Sep 2021 at 21:33

I agree with above. Fairly certain a party wall agreement should have been drawn up by your neighbour, at his cost. It's to protect both of you through a formal legal agreement.

Do some research and go speak to the neighbour. https://www.peterbarry.co.uk/blog/what-to-do-when-your-neighbour-ignores-the-party-wall-act/

Just had a thought - is this a brand new wall? Did they dig and install foundations right on the boundary? If so even more argument for PWA to have been in place.