The New RICS Party Wall Guidance Note

For anyone planning work to a party wall, digging foundations near a neighbour or building on the boundary, the way surveyors handle the matter was updated in December 2019. On 1 December 2019 the seventh edition of the RICS guidance note Party wall legislation and...

Party Walls: Notices, Awards and the Third Surveyor

Summer is when many owners start the building work they have been planning all year. Loft conversions, rear extensions and alterations to terraced and semi detached houses often involve the wall shared with next door, or digging close to a neighbour’s...