You mentioned cooker hood so depending on its design you could move the hole higher as well as to the right. If the hood has a chimney you can have the hole as high as you like. As it stands it looks like just moving o the right then the old and new hole will overlap - which is your worry - isn’t it.
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New Hole For Cooker Hood
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I moved mine about 10” and went up a bit. I bricked up and plastered over on the inside and made good by replacing the 4 bricks on outside.
Yes, it will be the chimney type we go for, just wanna make sure no bricks are going to come clattering down hence why I thought of filling the existing one first.
No issues with the integrity of the brickwork, open up as much as you need (cables permitting) in whatever direction you want, overlapping holes or not, then make good 
That's brilliant thank you, much appreciated.No issues with the integrity of the brickwork, open up as much as you need (cables permitting) in whatever direction you want, overlapping holes or not, then make good
Thanks everyone for your imput.
like it.
Yeah, I bricked and plastered the old hole after I made the new one. I just stuffed some plastic sacks in the old hole to stop the drafts until I got round to doing it.
Cheers
I would first brick up the existing, inner and outer faces, then give it a week to set up, before starting drilling a new hole.
Much appreciated
That would be my approach
Apart from going left (beneath the lintel bearing) of course.
You will likely have to re-build the outer masonry, in any case. We'd tooth out the relevant bricks for the new duct (outside) make a new hole inside, sleeve it with a short length of plastic underground pipe, then re-build all the brickwork (including the old hole), and patch up the blockwork.
Leave the duct long enough to cope with the plaster thickness. If you are going to duct it with 6" pipe, see if you can scrounge a bit. 6" gear is two - three times the cost of 110mm gear.
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That’d only make sense if you were coring a new 6” hole out, and even then you’d have to go easy as week old brickwork particularly in this weather wont take much of a battering without moving.
Agree. Bonkers suggestion. A core drill would wreck the new masonry.
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