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    Roof lift without planning permission

    Building control came out about 4 or 5 weeks after we complained and nothing was said to the neighbours he went in our house and said he felt sorry for the neighbours because of the state of the work and that was that. he said they had an independent surveyor, and something along the lines of...
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    @^woody^ sorry, when i say our surveyor i mean the single joint expert. Their servayor was the one that was overseeing the build and whoever did the completion cert. I just wanted the council to tell them it was a bag of crap. Not that that will help the outcome but might make it sink in for...
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    Sorry im making this really confusing. We had a single joint expert who did our report (sorry i keep calling it a part 35 report couldnt remember the name of it) They did mess about with the party wall, knocked out 4 chimney breasts lowered the floors upstairs for head room and did something...
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    A brick has feel out in our the loft on the party wall and we can see their new timber. The roof has no bonding gutter they raised the roof by a good few inches so water is pouring in when its rains. The builders couldn't access part of the roof via their side so accessing the roof on our side...
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    @mrrusty our solicitor deals with property litigation (we fell foul the first time as we got the wrong type of solicitor but we live and learn ) The report our surveyor provided had a breakdown of all costs and damage that been caused and a breakdown of cost to fix (its the expert report that...
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    We Didnt have home insurance annoyingly.
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    Thanks for the reply, There was no party wall notice and only 3 days notice before the work started. We didnt have the work stopped as we didnt know any of this at the time. We tried to tell our neighbours but they just told us to get over it and didn't want to listen they made us jump through...
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    Roof lift without planning permission

    Hi I hope someone could help and give a little advice on this matter. Our neighbours was having a loft conversion and they somehow managed to miss calculate things or were trying to get extra head hight who knows, but they ended up raising their roof on their semi-detached house by several...
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