Groundwork & Foundations

Paved front garden next to retaining wall - cracked slabs and uneven ground level

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.49 PM

My front garden is paved (the slabs aren't concreted in) and has a conservatory on it. The garden is held up by a retaining wall on the neighbours' side of my boundary fence. The neighbours told me that the wall has lateral movement in it and at the time there was no problem with my property. Now, though, I have discovered that there is a gap of around 3" under the fence and the paving slabs by it are cracked. I've also noticed that the slabs are not sitting flat around the conservatory. I don't know whether this is because the retaining wall has moved more, whether the excess rain we had a while back has caused the ground to sink in places if it's a mixture of the two. I'm worried that my conservatory could fall down! If I post a job to get my garden area flat again, what should I be looking to be done in order to rectify any underlying problem? What should I be asking about the retaining wall? Thanks.