I'm not so sure about that, as down the road from me, a single dwelling
owner successfully stopped a developer who owned the adjacent plot from
making his house into a semi detached one about fi ve years or so back.

Brian

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My third and final post of the day!

As I may have mentioned elsethread, I've recently moved into my new
house, which is a small Victorian detached cottage in town. There are
plans to build on the adjacent "yard" (actually a back garden currently
used as a car park) and, from what I make out of the plans (which aren't
very well drawn in my opinion), the new house will be physically joined
onto the two houses it sits between, thus at a stroke turning my house
from a detached house into an end-of-terrace. I've been reading on the
Party Wall Act but I can't seem to discover if I'm obliged to agree to
this happening, or if I can simply refuse them permission to do this. If
I AM obliged to do this, can I insist on any provisions (such as
underpinning, sound-proofing etc.) as the house that's being proposed is
not for the owner to live in but to sell or, judging by the area, to let?

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You are obliged to enter into a party wall agreement with him

This should be drawn up in a way that protects all of your interests,
though I can't see that underpinning is one of them

tim