Recent content by wessex101

You do not make it clear whether the amended drawings are actually incorrect. It is not unusual for the drawings to be amended during the preparation of the award to reflect changes or corrections of errors. The original drawing shows a step in the flank wall of your existing extension and the...

What paperwork? The deeds do not need to be updated. Stop fixating on irrelevant details.

@Nomadic78 Your response is still confused and jumbled. The party wall process does not work in the way you have described and you keep contradicting yourself or changing the details. I am beginning to think that the wall in question could well be a Type A party wall. In all probability if all...

That's not how it works. The Party Wall Award is driven by the Building Owners surveyor, the adjoining owner's surveyor usually just has a watching brief to check and agree what the building owners surveyor is doing. Earlier you said that you had your own surveyor or are you in fact both using...

Hang on a minute. Why would the surveyor visit the other neighbour unless he was touting for work? Sounds to me like this is a rogue surveyor who is trying to inflate his fee. It would be interesting to know how your first neighbour found them, it wasn't from a unsolicited letter following a...

Over the years I've worked on a number of different public sector contracts, NHS, MOD, local authority, housing associations etc. The one common thread that runs through all of them is the staggering levels of waste, bureaucracy and institutional incompetence. Anything that is touched by the...

Bit of a long shot but it looks like the house is split level? What is the height of the loft floor above the highest external ground level? Is it less than 4.5m by any chance?

Are you installing new rooflights forming a new opening in to the roof or replacing existing rooflights? That Fakro link it just plain wrong, they don't even know the difference between Building Regulations and Planning Permission. Try this link, Planning Portal is much more reliable and is...

I still not understand what a "kitchen to garage" is? Are you converting your garage to a kitchen? If so that requires building regulations approval. Also the installation of doors and rooflights may require building regulations approval.

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If the house is 100 years old and was converted to flats in the 1970's then surely it is a dwelling house? It strikes me that the council are being overly pedantic and the upgrade works to comply with current regulations would be a nightmare. I can understand the logic if you were converting to...

Either the stairs comply with the regulations or they don't. It shouldn't be down to the interpretation of a single building inspector or whether he is feeling a bit lax that day. The OP was fortunate that the inspector on that day decided to let it go. On a different day or with a different...

I think this says more about the calibre of Building Control Officers these days. Is it any wonder that the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower was fully approved by the local council building inspector. I bet he said "it was fine and there were zero issues with it".

There is a planning application for the adjoining development so a 10 minute search on the council's planning website will provide a wealth of information. I usually work from a planning application to advise if the Party Wall Act is likely to apply, it's not rocket science. As for your last...

This just caught my eye. Why do people rate Heritage House as some kind of industry expert? They are just a business trying to attract customers much the same as Timberwise and DampPro the only difference is they slag everyone else off to try and give themselves some extra legitimacy. Funny...