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Hi everyone. Looking for advise.
We have an extension on the back of our house that was there when we moved it and it would seem has been there a long time.
Our neighbour had a makeshift plastic roof room attached to the end of theirs.
They have just decided to have a "proper room" extension put where that was.
We were not told of the plans, we've seen no paperwork to show it's legal etc. Just the vans started turning up and making a huge amount of noise.
Fast forward to this extension being completed and when we look out across our extension roof, they have attached a wooden batten and therefore their roof, right on top of ours?! Surely this isn't right, and surely they should have sought permission from us first?
I should mention we have an indemnity policy on our extension as no planning could be found at the time of sale (it's been up around 20 years we think) and it unfortunately has an asbestos roof!
Where do we stand if they have damaged our roof? And what do we do now?
We also think they've just used our existing walls as we can hear a lot of what happens the other side, we couldn't before.
We have an extension on the back of our house that was there when we moved it and it would seem has been there a long time.
Our neighbour had a makeshift plastic roof room attached to the end of theirs.
They have just decided to have a "proper room" extension put where that was.
We were not told of the plans, we've seen no paperwork to show it's legal etc. Just the vans started turning up and making a huge amount of noise.
Fast forward to this extension being completed and when we look out across our extension roof, they have attached a wooden batten and therefore their roof, right on top of ours?! Surely this isn't right, and surely they should have sought permission from us first?
I should mention we have an indemnity policy on our extension as no planning could be found at the time of sale (it's been up around 20 years we think) and it unfortunately has an asbestos roof!
Where do we stand if they have damaged our roof? And what do we do now?
We also think they've just used our existing walls as we can hear a lot of what happens the other side, we couldn't before.