Party Wall

Party Wall Act

Croft Structural Engineers has Party Wall Surveyors within its organisation who are able to undertake Party Wall commissions. However as our main specialty is Structural Design we do know where our limits lie and may recommend that a Party Wall Firm undertake certain projects

Under the act it is necessary for people to inform their neighbours if they are:

Completing work to the party wall; repairs, cutting in flashings, adding additional loads.
Raising or underpinning the party wall
If they are exacting lower than a neighbours footing with in 3m
Excavating within 6m and lower than a 45� line to a neighbours the existing footings.

The process is to issue notice (basically inform your neighbour). Then if they dissent to complete a party wall award.

The Pyramus and Thisbe Club was set up in 1974 as a discussion forum for Party Wall matters after widespread misreporting of Gyle-Thompson v Wallstreet.

It was originally limited to 100 members but grew because of the pressures to provide a venue where CPD could take place in the widest sense of the word. The majority of members are Chartered Surveyors, but membership is open to all property professionals..

The Club played a pivotal role in the framing of the present Act and several members were present in the House when the Bill was introduced into the Lords and during the committee stages where amendments were made.

There are no examinations for membership and no letters after one's name but the Club prides itself on welcoming anyone actively involved in party wall matters and interested in becoming as good at it as it is possible to be. Members are called upon to disseminate matters of interest to others and to help train younger surveyors coming up.

Tel - 0208 684 4744 - Clock Shop Mews, Rear of 60 Saxon Rd, London SE25 5EH