Hi all
I hope you can help / advise etc…
Currently our neighbours kitchen cooker vent exits on to our property. As the picture (hopefully) shows, it exits from his house into our garden.
Now, his property is longer than ours as it was extended (and I assume the vent installed) around 20 years ago but neither of us have lived in either property long enough to have been involved in this build. We would like to extend our property out to match the depth of his so his vent will definitely need to be moved, probably to exit out of his flat roof.
The question is, who will have to pay for this move? I assume that his vent shouldn’t exit on to our property at all so could we ask him to foot the bill? Or, if it’s been there a long time, do we have no rights to complain about it now and if it’s to be moved we have to pay for it?
We haven’t had any party wall surveys or agreements done yet so I would expect this issue to be covered in those documents. I just want to get some of your opinions on this first.
All help appreciated!
Thanks
I hope you can help / advise etc…
Currently our neighbours kitchen cooker vent exits on to our property. As the picture (hopefully) shows, it exits from his house into our garden.
Now, his property is longer than ours as it was extended (and I assume the vent installed) around 20 years ago but neither of us have lived in either property long enough to have been involved in this build. We would like to extend our property out to match the depth of his so his vent will definitely need to be moved, probably to exit out of his flat roof.
The question is, who will have to pay for this move? I assume that his vent shouldn’t exit on to our property at all so could we ask him to foot the bill? Or, if it’s been there a long time, do we have no rights to complain about it now and if it’s to be moved we have to pay for it?
We haven’t had any party wall surveys or agreements done yet so I would expect this issue to be covered in those documents. I just want to get some of your opinions on this first.
All help appreciated!
Thanks