Neighbor likes to remove shared chimney stack - Any problems 4 me?

[vinn]

Gerrydelasel,
I do understand what you are saying (& I'm well versed in the London housing stock) but if you think about it your points only confirm what I'm saying about the value of traditional features.

The more "rare" features become the more valuable they are.
In Dublin a very delapidated traditional "fixer-upper" with many original features recently went for almost one million euros more than its modernised neighbour's were bought for.
In Sydney & Moscow I'm told very similar is happening.
Property is a world wide game and traditional is gold-dust. Try changing the appearance of a house in San Francisco.

 

[Gerrydelasel]

The more "rare" features become the more valuable they are.

I can believe it in those countries. But as Bill Bryson has observed, Britain has so much heritage -more than any other country per acre- that people take it for granted; they think it will never run out, no matter how many things they demolish.