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Last week one of our Chartered Surveyors Simon Coates received an enquiry from a member of the public who was losing patience over a party wall dispute She was renting a flat and her neighbour was busy doing work on their property.The work involved the Party Wall etc Act 1996 and surveyors had been engaged. She was upset because her landlord ...

You may not have realised it but we often get emails and calls from neighbours in dispute. We've all seen Neighbours From Hell on Channel 4 and read horror stories in daily papers. Our enquiries are often around noisy neighbours, or disputes over a neighbour who hasn't cut their grass. Not to mention a neighbour who's painted the wall between ...