We live in a semi-detached house where the back garden is facing due south and our house is east (left) of our adjoining neighbours. Between the two houses is a 6.5 foot party wall. We have learned from our neighbour that he is planning to extend his house across the full width of the downstairs floor, thereby enlarging both his kitchen an living room. His plans will mean increasing either the height of the party wall up to 9 feet or building a 9 foot high wall just inside the party wall. Our concern is two-fold: 1) aesthetically, we do not like the idea of looking at a 9 foot high wall when we look out our kitchen window instead of the sky and 2) we will lose considerable sunlight in our garden in the late afternoon/evenings as the sun swings west behind the existing 6.5 foot party wall - it will set a lot earlier for us if that wall is extended to 9 foot.
While the extension will be under 40m2 in size the neighbour has told us that there are no planning issues and that raising the height of a party wall is something that they can just go ahead with. Can anyone give me advice whether he is correct in relation to planning and whether, if reasoning with our neighbour fails, there is any way we can object to what he is proposing.
While the extension will be under 40m2 in size the neighbour has told us that there are no planning issues and that raising the height of a party wall is something that they can just go ahead with. Can anyone give me advice whether he is correct in relation to planning and whether, if reasoning with our neighbour fails, there is any way we can object to what he is proposing.