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At least they can amuse dinner party guests by saying the house is literally hanging by a thread.

What about the bond of the wall though? Like if it is English or Flemish you might have to follow that bond. Also the bricks will be imperial of some kind. Then there is cement mortar on a wall that has lime mortar. I have seen areas of stone buildings rebuilt in block though. Not saying it...

I was just wondering how this is done when a single storey timber frame extension goes out from a cavity back wall of the existing house ie at right angles. Do you chop a vertical dpc into the cavity? Is the timber panel simply bolted to the wall or is there more to it than that? Like a...

Well it begins at the planning portal - calculating the volume and it's relationship to the street frontage. I am finding it difficult to relate your plan to the photograph, a pic showing the whole frontage would be helpful. Do you mean 2m wide? Your current one is about 1.75m I think.

Must admit I do have some sympathy for the OP on this one! But as others have said if it would just get re-passed it would be a phyrric victory. The problem is the funding has been cut so much the system is not working properly and resources can only be allocated to the worst problems. The only...

Okay I think what they might be saying is that the back wall might be very crumbly in the section below where the steel is going in. Perhaps this is old victorian mortar that has turned to dust say and they are concerned the wall itself might come down. If you have young children you might...

I am not an expert in any way but the fundamental rule about groundworks is to get the best guys you can and don't worry over small costs. This is an expert field and mistakes can be hugely expensive to rectify. If you are in London with this build you especially want to get your trenches...

On the house behind me they are building a highly glazed extension with a steel frame providing the structural support. I was wondering about this same issue. What they did was to encase the whole thing in wood and they used shot fired fixings. Good luck kenny.

Did anyone mention that estates of this nature sometimes have their permitted rights removed or curtailed. It is best if possible to look at the planning conditions for the development in addition to the deeds. Or check with conveyencer.

Great effort legepe. Just a couple of questions. Did you have to put expansion gaps in atall? And where the dpm is against the wall, do you just bond it to the wall or does it have to be chased into the brickwork???

Perhaps a void would not work too well because any condensation from the inside of the house needs to be able to pass to the outside through the breather membrane. A void might not aid this process. In your example I guess there is also the question of the placement of the timber onto your...

Does it all start again if fresh bat droppings are found on site in spring? Kate Humble might turn up!

I will have to consult my Estates Gazette book on planning law Woody! It is infact a good read, been some cracking cases over the years. Well my understanding of it is that planning permission is not permission to build until the pre building conditions are discharged. Once the Highways Agency...

Sorry yes a 10m trench! That is about 2 cube??? The guy that did it was brilliant. Lorry came five minutes after the trench was complete. They did it all very calmly too. They had had to hand dig a good proportion of the trench, they had a very small A-Plant digger but could only do the top...

Firstly planning is all about opinions, all LA's are different. I can give mine but it is only that. Forget the building line for a minute, the thing they hate is a large mass of extension. The addition has to be subservient to the host building in planning speak. What this means in real life...

Roger btw if the worst does happen and they start chopping things down on your land what you have to do is go for a court injunction. In your shoes I would ask my solicitor about this so that you know what to do. It might even be worth engaging a surveyor who deals with land matters to establish...

I do think the OP is right to be worried, I imagine the claims would be large if he knocked out the sewerage on a group of houses. A friend of a friend was having an extension built and the lorry came along and backed into next door's drive by mistake and cracked it. If it is any help I saw...

Just to be clear, the reason for how it works like this is because we are talking about easements/wayleaves here not land ownership. It is always up to the developer to sort these out, either before or after the application.

How it works is this - when you apply for pp a request is generated to the Highways Agency and they come along and do a report to the council. But the HA and the council are only concerned with the functionality of the access and the sightline, not the ownership of the land. If they come along...

Exactly Woody. Personally I would not go for anything in the future like profits becasue there are too many ways to get round it. It's either don't sell or take a big sum of cash for me at least. But I fully understand why the OP might not want to sell. You have to be careful this neighbour...