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ok. Thank you for everyone who posted. My surveyor (who's now a bit upset at being insulted) has now stated: With regard to loading a party wall, the owners have rights over the full width of the wall and, although the Act makes no mention of a right to load a party wall, I believe it is...

To Woody It's getting tedious. They are maxing out the capacity of the foundations. Different league to furnishing a bedroom. But, yes, if they stacked several 2" thick steel safes in the bedroom, I might be put out, consider it "selfish". Anyway, I realise this is my view, as you have yours...

To freddy... Not sure if you write in jest. Of course I would like the option of also being able to put load on the wall.

To Woody Look, let's say as an example the wall can carry a maximum 5 tonnes the lintel length. Say it presently carries two. Three is "available/in reserve". The neighbour then proposes to load it with three. What I expect is as a shared wall their scheme would load it with 1.5 tonnes, not...

To Woody: That is what I am saying. Not suggesting the neighbour may not build on the party wall, I am asking surely, as it is shared property, we both have an equal right to load it similarly. If 'first in' fully loads it, that is not equally sharing. To Jeds: To reiterate, building regs I...

Thanks for replies. I have been served a Party Wall Notice. Neighbour and I have separate surveyors. My surveyor is not answering these questions, and I am concerned he will agree to the work and make a decision without answering. Yes, engineer is being paid by neighbour--but a Party Wall is...

Hello. A neighbour is suspending the rear extension (removing ground floor walls) of a Victorian house on beams, onto a lintel in our party wall. This is obviously a heavy load. The engineer calcs show a foundation 570mm wide is needed. It is assumed the foundation is 600mm, so is structurally...