Fifth, you risk being brought to justice if you do not send notices of party breakdown to neighbours before work begins. Your neighbour is free to appoint a lawyer and issue an injunction to stop your project. The legal fees are yours to cover and a stop could be very expensive if the builder tries to drive you out for lost revenue resulting from a shutdown. Whatever you do, you should not be tempted to disrespect the provisions of the law to save money. Inaction with work without notifications, consents and agreements is a dangerous practice, in addition to being illegal. In this scenario, let us assume that in 2009, the owner issued the corresponding decisions of the party and that a party closing bonus was granted. The work was carried out in 2009/10, but the damage was not discovered until 2012. To be simple, there was only one surveyor, the agreed surveyor. Hello – out of total ignorance, we didn`t have a 3rd party wall agreement when we turned the flat roof on the existing extension into something weird. That was three years ago, and while the neighbour never complained about the damage caused by the incision in the wall for the tiles — because now we have problems with them, because we ask if he could install higher fences (they look all the time in our garden and in our house, and I have little children who like to run naked around the house), they now threaten to sue us because they have not. Note that at the time of the work, they never said anything 3 years later. I`m not sure what to do now, because every time we ask for something, they`re going to keep it on us and harass us.

Can you do it so long after the event? The Onigbanjo verdict against Pearson is also supported. In this case, the adjacent owner accepted the work of the owner, but was then able to involve the PWA in 1996 to recover compensation from the owner. There does not appear to be any reason why the neighbouring owner should not be able to face the law to deal with the resulting damage or loss. In our scenario, this may mean that the adjacent owner will return to the agreed surveyor instead of launching a new party partition procedure. A wall party agreement is only required if your neighbor does not give your consent or responds to their message within 14 days.