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We provide comprehensive party wall services to protect your property and ensure compliance with the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, helping you navigate complex regulations with ease.

Building Owner Services

Our expert surveyors assist building owners with serving proper notices, negotiating with neighbours, and creating detailed party wall awards that allow your project to proceed smoothly and legally.

Adjoining Owner Advice

We provide adjoining owners with professional guidance when you’ve received a party wall notice, ensuring your property rights are protected and any concerns are properly addressed.

Party Wall Awards

Our detailed party wall awards establish clear guidelines for construction work, including access arrangements, working hours, and protection measures to safeguard both properties involved.

Common Party Wall Projects

We handle all types of party wall matters related to common home improvement projects, ensuring proper compliance with regulations while minimising disruption to all parties.

Extensions

Building extensions typically involve party wall matters, especially when building foundations near boundaries or raising the height of shared walls.

Loft Conversions

Loft conversions frequently involve work on party walls, requiring proper notices and agreements before construction can begin to protect neighboring properties.

Chimney Breast Removal

Removing a chimney breast often affects shared walls and requires professional party wall advice to ensure structural integrity and compliance with building regulations.

Basement Conversions

Basement projects carry significant risk to adjoining properties and require comprehensive party wall agreements to prevent damage and address neighbor concerns.

Expert Consultation

Our Party Wall Surveying experts guide you through your construction project, ensuring compliance with the Party Wall Act while streamlining the process and minimising disputes.

Serving Notice

We prepare and serve clear, concise, and legally compliant Party Wall Notices, enhancing the chances of gaining consent from your neighbours while outlining the project’s impact.

Surveyor Appointment

If adjoining owners request a surveyor, our skilled Party Wall Surveyors represent your interests and collaborate with others to ensure fair and impartial resolutions for both parties.

Crafting the Party Wall Award

Our surveyors carefully assess proposed works and draft a thorough Party Wall Award, providing you with peace of mind and confidence to move forward with your project.

Monitoring and Ensuring Compliance

Our Party Wall Surveyors monitor construction progress, ensuring compliance with the Party Wall Award, and verifying proper completion without damage to adjoining properties.

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Party Wall FAQs

What is a Party Wall Surveyor?

A Party Wall Surveyor administers party wall surveying procedures on behalf of their appointing owner, this could be the Building Owner (owner undertaking works) or Adjoining Owner (neighbouring property to works).

A Party Wall Surveyor’s role is to ensure Building Owner’s work proposes the minimal risk possible to the Adjoining Owner’s property as well as ensuring it is fully protected from the proposed construction works.

How long does the Party Wall Process take?

The time to complete Party Wall Surveying Procedures can vary depending upon a number of different variables including:

The construction works.
Party Wall Notice, response times.
Access is granted, to undertake the Schedule of Condition Report.
Party Wall Surveyors handling the file
Surveyors agreement to clauses within the Party Wall Award

Generally speaking, 1 – 3 months from the point at which the Party Wall Notices are served upon the Adjoining Owner.

How much do Party Wall procedures cost?

Party Wall Surveying costs / Surveyor’s fees will vary dependent on the construction works taking place as well as the types of property the works are being undertaken on.

Here at Icon Surveyors, both our Building Owner Party Wall Surveyor and Agreed Party Wall Surveyor jobs are competitively priced at a fixed cost.

What is a Party Wall Award?

A Party Wall Award is a legal document that is both drafted and agreed upon by either an Agreed Surveyor or two respective Party Wall Surveyors.

Party Wall Awards are served upon completion of the Party Wall Surveying Procedures. The Party Wall Award gives the Building Owner the legal right to commence the construction works covered within the Party Wall etc Act 1996.

The Party Wall Award, includes various clauses governing the construction works, ensuring the risks posed to the Adjoining Owner’s properties are kept to a minimum.

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