Any advice on the following issue -
we are currently in process of finalising plans for an extension at the back of our terraced house - we have a neighbour on one side who has put an extension on their house already (not making use of shared party wall) and neighbour on the other side that has not extended.
We would like to push our extension walls right the way out to the boundaries of the shared party wall
- on the side of the house where the neighbour has already done his extension, i can see no logical reason why he might be dismayed that we would be using the party wall line as the place for the start of extension (we would make good any guttering/flashing issues that might arise out of building the new wall next to his extension)
- on the side of the house where there is no extension done, we would not be blocking light of that neighbour (aspect is in our favour), with a new wall, the neighbour would be in an advantageous position should they wish to do an extension themselves
question is twofold:
we are currently in process of finalising plans for an extension at the back of our terraced house - we have a neighbour on one side who has put an extension on their house already (not making use of shared party wall) and neighbour on the other side that has not extended.
We would like to push our extension walls right the way out to the boundaries of the shared party wall
- on the side of the house where the neighbour has already done his extension, i can see no logical reason why he might be dismayed that we would be using the party wall line as the place for the start of extension (we would make good any guttering/flashing issues that might arise out of building the new wall next to his extension)
- on the side of the house where there is no extension done, we would not be blocking light of that neighbour (aspect is in our favour), with a new wall, the neighbour would be in an advantageous position should they wish to do an extension themselves
question is twofold:
- can they make an official objection to what we plan to do; or can they just be very unhappy about the situation and tell us that they do not want us to go ahead with our plans vis-a-vis the shared wall (we will not get pushy on this - if they say no, we will back off)
- if we are allowed to go ahead with this - should we get written permission from both parties that this is OK and would this be sufficient if a problem arose at any future point in time when there may be questions raised should any of the houses be sold?