Hi,
I wonder if someone could clarify the legality of a situation my cousin's family is in.
They had a single story extention built at the back of their property 10 years ago. They had an architect draw up plans, employed a local building company, they did everything by the book, with building control and council etc. etc.
Last week their neighbour started work on a similar single story extension and after only about a day of digging out, the neighbour arrives on their doorstep, just a level down from cardiac arrest with rage as his builders have informed him that the footings for my cousin's extension cross the boundary line into his land by 20cm.
My cousin has got back in touch with their architect (which, would you believe, is the same architect working on the neighbours extension) and their builder and both say there is not a problem.
Now I've done a tiny bit of searching on the internet and can't really find a definitive answer.
So I guess my question is have my cousin's architect and builder screwed up ?
Has legislation in the last 10 years changed to disallow this sort of thing ?
Is this perfectly legal ?
Thanks for your help.
I wonder if someone could clarify the legality of a situation my cousin's family is in.
They had a single story extention built at the back of their property 10 years ago. They had an architect draw up plans, employed a local building company, they did everything by the book, with building control and council etc. etc.
Last week their neighbour started work on a similar single story extension and after only about a day of digging out, the neighbour arrives on their doorstep, just a level down from cardiac arrest with rage as his builders have informed him that the footings for my cousin's extension cross the boundary line into his land by 20cm.
My cousin has got back in touch with their architect (which, would you believe, is the same architect working on the neighbours extension) and their builder and both say there is not a problem.
Now I've done a tiny bit of searching on the internet and can't really find a definitive answer.
So I guess my question is have my cousin's architect and builder screwed up ?
Has legislation in the last 10 years changed to disallow this sort of thing ?
Is this perfectly legal ?
Thanks for your help.