Party wall notice reply form

Create your reply

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Your name, or the names of everyone who owns your home

There is more than one owner (the letter will say "we")

Your address (the property next to the work) Name of the neighbour who served the notice Their address Date on the notice Type of notice Party structure notice (section 3): work to a shared wall Notice of adjacent excavation (section 6): digging near your foundations Line of junction notice (section 1): new wall straddling the boundary Line of junction notice (section 1): new wall wholly on their land

Your answer

I agree to the work (consent)

I agree, and ask for a record of my home's condition before work starts

I do not agree, and accept one surveyor for both of us (agreed surveyor)

I do not agree, and appoint my own surveyor

I agree to the wall straddling the boundary

I do not agree to the wall straddling the boundary

I acknowledge the notice

I am happy to receive documents about this by email

Create my reply

Before you send it

• Check the date. The 14 days include the day the notice was served. The deadline calculator will tell you the last day.
• Speak to your surveyor first if you are appointing one. Most will confirm their appointment in writing as well.
• Every owner should sign. If your home is owned jointly, each owner signs.
• Keep a copy, and note how and when you delivered it.

Which answer should I choose?

If the work is minor and you trust your neighbour, consent with a record of condition can work well. For anything structural near your home, appointing a surveyor, either shared or your own, gives you an award that sets out how the work is done and how damage is dealt with. Your ways to reply compares the options.

Official example letters

GOV.UK publishes example notices and acknowledgement letters. This form follows the same structure, in plainer words.