Party Wall Specialists

  Party Wall Surveyors North Wales Ltd was established in 2012 and specialises in property related professional advice to both private individuals and commercial clients alike across North Wales and beyond including Cheshire, Merseyside and Shropshire.

The practice is headed by our knowledgeable surveying Director Mr Richard Preece [MFPWS]. Richard has over 40 years’ experience in the property and construction industry, starting out as a Carpenter & Joiner through to qualifying as a Chartered Building Surveyor in 1999.  

More recently Richard qualified as a member of the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors and now focuses solely on Party Wall Matters and its closely related disciplines, following his retirement as a Chartered Building Surveyor from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors at the end of 2023. 

  Party Wall Surveyors North Wales Ltd provides professional services in the following,

Party Wall Matters

Neighbourly Matters

Boundary Disputes

Party Wall Matters  

The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 can be best described as an enabling Act allowing a Building Owner to carry out adaptations and repairs to their property.  It provides a formal process, minimising the potential for disputes to arise between property owners.  The provisions of the Act, however, can be complex and many Building Owners and their Adjoining Owners/neighbours have fallen foul of not adhering to the formal procedures at the right time. 

If you were to engage Party Wall Surveyors North Wales Ltd to represent you on ‘Party Wall Matters’, we would be there to help and advise you throughout the process, sending notices and/or by responding to any notices that have been served on you.

Neighbourly Matters  

Building Owners/Developers and their proposed work can often affect neighbouring properties, infringing the rights of Adjoining Owners/neighbours.

Bespoke access agreements (also known as access licences) are sometimes required between Building Owners/Developers and Adjoining Owners, as permitted access is limited and not always a given under the Party Wall etc Act 1996 or Access to Neighbouring Land Act. 

Developers and their neighbours both need to be aware of the implications of proposed work, as the implications can influence the design, method of construction, programme and therefore the financial viability of any proposed work/development. 

If you were to engage Party Wall Surveyors North Wales Ltd to represent you on ‘Neighbourly Matters’, whether from the Building Owner/Developers or the Adjoining Owners perspective, we are there to help and advise you throughout the process, producing a bespoke access agreement to allow the proposed work/development to progress.

Boundary Disputes   

Boundary disputes are a cause of stress to all parties concerned which often end up in expensive legal disputes that are way out of proportion to the matter in hand. 

Party Wall Surveyors North Wales Ltd have many years’ experience with boundary disputes and if early on in our appointment we feel that there is little evidence to support the boundary dispute by the instructing client we would recommend that the matter is either settled by mediation or dropped altogether.