Neighbouring Properties: Problems and practice

This course considers the main issues which create tension between owners and occupiers of neighbouring properties including party walls, boundary disputes, access and rights to light.

There is a wide range of issues which can create tension between owners and occupiers of neighbouring properties
and there are also many situations when a neighbour has to consent to or to provide access for work to be undertaken. Professionals become involved in giving advice in such situations both with regard to the statutory rights of neighbours and also seeking resolution to disputes.

This course examines a number of the key issues and illustrates how they should be dealt with by reference to a range of practice-based case studies.

This course covers:

• party walls (the Party Wall Act 1996; notices; disputes; negotiation of an award)
• neighbourly issues (crane and scaffolding oversailing licences, boundary disputes, Access to Neighbouring Land Acts)
• rights to light (principles; implications for development; case law; compensation calculations; cutbacks)
• daylight and sunlight (VSC, ADF and NSL calculations; APSH and shadow calculations)

James Crowley initially trained as a building surveyor, but has specialised in issues relating to neighbouring property successively with Michael Brooks and Associates and Gordon Ingram Associates. He set up his own firm, CHP, in 2004.

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