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Hi,
We submitted some plans and our neighbour(who is a structual engineer) went to town using objection letters from him and his wife(using different names to give the impression of multiple objections). They objected to about 10 different points, all of which were rebuffed by the planning officer and planning permission was granted. Great we thought, lets proceed with the build. He originally told me that we could use an agreed party wall surveyor, however now he is saying that his friend doesn not want to act for both parties(given this is his work he knows exaclty how this will cost us more money). I'm really concerned that his friend is going to delay the project, as well as over charge us because it's become clear that they are going to try and do everything they can to try and block the build. I would appreciate any insight into if a party wall surveyor can act in such a way to block any building work? This is a massive 9 month build that we want to start in a couple of months and are currently securing accomodation to live in whilst the work is being done. So now we are concerned that they might try to delay the work for several months just purely to be petty and hopefully make us not do it. The sadest part is this people used to be our friends and we didn't even ask for a party wall when they did an extension.
We submitted some plans and our neighbour(who is a structual engineer) went to town using objection letters from him and his wife(using different names to give the impression of multiple objections). They objected to about 10 different points, all of which were rebuffed by the planning officer and planning permission was granted. Great we thought, lets proceed with the build. He originally told me that we could use an agreed party wall surveyor, however now he is saying that his friend doesn not want to act for both parties(given this is his work he knows exaclty how this will cost us more money). I'm really concerned that his friend is going to delay the project, as well as over charge us because it's become clear that they are going to try and do everything they can to try and block the build. I would appreciate any insight into if a party wall surveyor can act in such a way to block any building work? This is a massive 9 month build that we want to start in a couple of months and are currently securing accomodation to live in whilst the work is being done. So now we are concerned that they might try to delay the work for several months just purely to be petty and hopefully make us not do it. The sadest part is this people used to be our friends and we didn't even ask for a party wall when they did an extension.