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We have an alleyway between our house and next door with bedrooms above / over the alley. Can the neighbour move pipes from the back of their house in to this alleyway, due to change of internal house layout, or is there a restriction on width of an alley below which no obstruction like this is...

There is a shared ginnel between our house and next door. We are in a long terrace and the bedrooms meet over the ginnel. There is a shared drain along the whole of the ginnel which takes waste from each downstairs toilet (in each house) to the main sewer. Next door is doing house alterations...

Thanks for the help. I am thinking that maybe cement between some of the bricks should actually be lime mortar and maybe that is contributing to the problem by not letting the house breathe. Anyway I'm taking the advice and getting someone out to have a look at it for me.

I've inherited a grade 2 house dating back to 1735 ish. It's been empty for maybe 8 years now. It is brick on a plinth and inside walls are lime plaster I think. There is a solid floor to the inside but not sure what it is. The windows are metal frames and ancient . The whole house smells...