Tweet If you plan to do building works that may affect a party or structure (a ceiling for instance) between you and a neighbour then the provisions of the Party Wall act may apply.

Tweet For quite a while we have provided free Party Wall Notice Templates at our sister site partywallsurveyors.co.uk, these are now available on our main Collier Stevens site.

Tweet Quite often what appears to be an easy way to make a room bigger in an older house is to think about removing the chimney breast – at first thought it seems easy, knock it out with a sledgehammer, bag up and remove the rubble, plaster up, decorate and [...]

Tweet “MP condemns Basement Conversions” a short article about a debate in the commons last week moaning about basement conversions and developments, looked a bit insubstantial and despite their statements to the contrary a little nimby and a little bit xenophobic to us!!  Here’s MP Karen Bucks comments and here [...]

Tweet When you are thinking of undertaking building work, it is quite usual to obtain Building Regulation Approval and Planning Consent.  What is often overlooked, however, is the statutory obligation under the Party Wall etc Act. to get party wall agreement and consent and this can often cause a problem.

Tweet It happens all the time, you serve a party wall notice, wait and then…. nothing.  So what do you do?  Well, as far as the Party Wall etc Act is concerned there are 14 days to reply after which your neighbour is deemed to have dissented.

Tweet Collier Stevens, Chartered Surveyors have always provided free party wall notice templates for you to download and use, during our website update though it would seem that he links were broken and we missed them until last week when one of our visitors took the time to let us [...]

Tweet We have recently updated our popular fixed price service for acting as “Building Owners Surveyor” where residential party wall awards or party wall agreements are required by the Party Wall etc Act.  We like to think that our offer, which is limited to residential projects and designed specifically to [...]

Tweet We always like it when having done a good job for someone we get a recommendation.  We got one this week from the East Dulwich Forum!  We’re not sure who placed the info but we do appreciate it as we try very hard to make sure that all of [...]

Tweet This post is primarily relevant to older buildings – say late victorian to mid sixties – earlier than this and all sorts of interesting timbers are often added and after this roofs are very often of prefabricated timber trusses. [oh and a quick rear end cover - this is [...]