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Mediation & neighbourly matters

Do you have differences in opinion regarding your property boundaries?
If so, you will be aware of the sometimes extreme levels of concern and not least stress that these situations can generate, notwithstanding the considerable amounts of time, energy and monetary cost that can be expended.  Whilst professional advice is not always needed, acting at an early stage to help diffuse boundary matters can help to avoid potentially significant problems later on such as 'blighted' properties, excessive legal fees as well as general emotional fatigue.

What can we do to help?
Mark Duckworth is a qualified RICS (evaluative) mediator and has extensive experience in dealing with a variety of neighbourly matters including dispute resolution. Our approach is to help people achieve a timely resolution and to assist where at all possible based upon the evidence found. We pay particular regard to people as 'individuals', who may share particularly strong feelings.  For this reason, listening and seeking to understand all perspectives as well as considering the facts on the ground are all carefully considered. Ultimately we seek to help facilitate a solution that works for all to resolve such disputes.

More complex matters
We have experience of helping to resolve potentially more complex matters where neighbouring flat owners, i.e. leaseholders, have become embroiled in a dispute with either neighbouring leaseholders or freehold owners.  For example, where damage has occurred due to leaks with resultant flooding, or where damage has occurred from adjoining or neighbouring building works.  In some circumstances such matters may be beyond the scope of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, but will still require appropriate intervention.

With our combination of Party Wall, mediation, and, for example, damp and timber skills, we can provide independent assessments to help clients 'see the wood for the trees', and resolve what can be particularly difficult conflicts.

Examples include resolving a claim for damages from an upper floor leasehold property owner in Pimlico.  This involved providing reports to indicate that the basement waterproofing had failed, in a situation where the insurance company initially refused to acknowledge liability.  Another example is where damage occurred to an upper storey flat within a South-West London building which required remedial works due to inadequate structural works having been carried out to a ground floor apartment below.

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CONTACT US

Head Office and Central Contact Centre

Bedford House, 26A St Mary's Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB7 4ES

East Anglia: 01353 661222     London: 0207 416 6355