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The procedure for dealing with party walls regarding building and construction works, especially any conversions or extensions to your premises, can be intricate. However, if party wall notices are taken into account from the early phases of a project, and you are sure to use surveyors to carry out the requisite surveys as early as possible then it can be easier to get a Party Wall Agreement.
You are required to seek a Party Wall Agreement if your proposed work involves either building on or at the boundary line between two properties, or on a pre-existing party wall or structure, or if your project requires digging below and near the current foundation line of the neighbouring property. In all of these examples, you must submit a Party Wall Notice to the owner of the adjoining property. This includes all owners of the property, so if the neighbouring property is a leasehold or home with multiple occupancy you may need to serve this notice to multiple people. Your Party Wall Notice needs to include details about yourself along with your property as well as information about the scope and nature of the planned work.
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Balham is a district in south London inside the London Borough of Wandsworth. The settlement features in the Domesday Book as Belgeham. Bal signifies ârounded enclosure’ and ham a homestead, village or river enclosure. The area has been settled since Saxon times, and Balham Hill and Balham High Road follow the line of the Roman road Stane Street to Chichester.
Balham encompasses the A24 north of Tooting Bec and also the roads coming off it. The southern part of Balham which is near Tooting Bec features a block of 1930s Art Deco flats referred to as Du Cane Court. There’s also the Heaver Estate which can be found in Tooting, which comprises substantial homes. It was built inside the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by nearby Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham is positioned in between four south London commons, namely Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common to the west, Tooting Graveney Common to the south as well as the connecting Tooting Bec towards the east.
During WWII, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly damaged by air raids on London. Men and women sheltered inside the tube station during the raids, but a bomb fell in the High Road and through the top of the Underground station, bursting a water and gas mains and killing about 64 individuals. Ian McEwan describes the event as part of his novel âAtonement’, published in 2001.