The Party Wall Agreement
The party wall agreement is the agreement you’ll need when building on or close to the boundary, or if you are building within 3m of the neighbours building. This is needed, for example, if you are bearing a piece of steel onto a shared wall, it’s likely to cause cracking, so the neighbours need to know what’s going on and to consent to it. The easy thing would be to have our party wall surveyor to serve a party wall notice that the neighbour’s consent to, so the neighbours can keep an eye on what’s going on throughout the build. If they don’t consent to it, they can ask for schedules of conditions, and there will be an increased charge. In the worst case, the neighbours can appoint their own party wall surveyors at your expense. Usually, all this is just formality, as the party wall surveyors will just check that what you are doing is appropriate, and the neighbours will consent.
