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Planning permission for Outhouse building / boundary wall dispute

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.31 PM

In my back garden I had an outhouse building which was in bad condition.. so i demolished it and am in the process of building a new one, about 2/3 metres longer than the previous one (block construction). The back wall of my outhouse is the boundary wall seperating my grounds from my neighbour. On the other side of this wall is my neighbours conservatory which uses the boundary wall to support his roof. The wall is 2.5m in height where our outbuildings are as this is the height of both our roofs. The rest of the boundary walls are 6ft. Now i have extended my outhouse by 3metres i have also extended the bondary wall height where my building is from 6ft to 2.5m to save me building a new wall along the boundary to use for the back wall of my building. This was agreed with my neighbour.. but now the block is up hes saying he never agreed this and hes complaing about the size of the outhouse. I asked what his issue is and he said i cant build on the bondary wall as its jointly owned. Even though his outhouse currently sits on this joint wall and supports his roof. Where do i stand?

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4 Answers

AM Hall Builders

Rating: 5 out of 5

Cheltenham

The boundary wall is jointly owned you will need to get a party wall agreement where its agreed by both parties these can be quite costly, I just had one done and cost over £2000 in fees, people think they own there half of the side and sorry to say you dont, your neighbour could get and injunction and your liable for all costs

Answered6 May 2020

House Architecture Group Limited

Rating: 5 out of 5

Stockport

The legislation governing this is The Party Wall Etc Act 1996 - You can download an explanatory guide to it here - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/party-wall-etc-act-1996-guidance Its straightforward in principle but complicated in practice, especially where a dispute arises. Good luck!

Answered6 May 2020

Anonymous user

YOUR NEED AN AGREEMENT IN WRITTING .YOU SHOULD OF GOT THIS BEFORE WORK COMMENCED . IF YOUR NEIGHBOUR HAS PROOF AS TO SIZES OF OUTHOUSE AND WALL HE CAN MAKE YOU PUT THIS AS WAS . ALWAYS GET LEGAL ADVICE BEFORE THIS SORT OF WORK IS STARTED .AS IT CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS IF MEASUREMENTS AND STRUCTURE HAVE NOT BEEN AGREED BEFOREHAND .

Answered6 May 2020

Anonymous user

Boundary wall heights in Scotland state they can’t be higher than 2m without planning permission - a verbal agreement is always tricky as there’s no physical evidence of said agreement. Letter of the law would dictate concents would be required, also depending on specifics you may be granted permission regardless of your neighbours objections - the other side to that coin is the council agree with your neighbour and decline permission. It’s best to try and negotiate directly with your neighbour and come to a compromise - and put that in writing with both your signatures on it. Good luck

Answered6 May 2020