You seem to contradict yourself in that on one hand you are stating that the
neighbour will not let you go near their land, and on the other hand you say
that a neighbours foundations are encroaching on where you want your
foundations to be.

It is not a case of you needing access to the adjacent land, but it seems
like a straightforward underpinning situation

As others have mentioned, the PWA will apply, and will give you rights in
placing your foundation, and the neighbour has rights in protecting his.
However, you should bear in mind that you do not have to follow the PW
guidance or serve a notice. It is not compulsary. If you want to dig on your
side of the boundary, then you can, and the neighbour can not stop this.
Just make sure you take all necessary precautions.

Walls do not have to sit centrally on the foundation, and you can place them
off centre within aprox 100 mm - or greater if you increase the width of the
foundation strip.

Another consideration is any projections at the top of the wall - eg verge
or gutter, so the wall is normally set back from the boundary anyway.

I would advise you to take a number of photos of their extension, and
carefully note any existing cracks. Also ask for writen confirmation of any
current internal cracks (if any), and photos of them too.

dg




"Steve North" wrote in message
om...
This is the situation:

neighbour will not let me go anywhere near their land. I want to build
an extension onto the back of my house. One of the walls will need to
be adjacent to and with zero clearance to their already built
extension.

Normally walls sit centrally on the foundations upon which they sit.

So...how do I dig/pour the foundations for the wall for my extension
so that the wall of my extension adjacent to theirs has zero clearance
and yet sits in the middle of the foundations when it is built and
also does not involve going onto their land/property?

I think when I start digging at some point I 'might' hit their
foundations for their extension on my side of the property.

I hope that I have made the situation clear but also feel that I have
not!

So in general, if there is a wall sitting on foundations and you want
a new wall adjacent to it with zero clearance, but it's a neighbours
and you can't interfere with the current neighbours wall or
foundations....how do you build your wall?