Party Wall Agreement - Any help please

[Buck3t]

Hi

So on one side our neighbours have signed the party wall agreement. The other side is a landlord who has been off the reservation. We have been in contact with him through the letting agents, and he has said he would come by and look at plans (which are available online, but hey ho), anyone you only have 14 days to sign and he has now stopped responding to my DH who has contacted him 5 times in the last two weeks, twice in response to the landlord.

After saying he was coming round on Saturday. The Landlord's response on Tuesday was "Sorry mate I will see if I can squeeze it in at some point". To us that sounds ominous. And now we're here with two days to go (thought it was friday today, so still a chance)

It looks as though if he doesn't sign we have to go through a surveyor to the next stage. If we have to go through the expense of a surveyor, do we need the Landlord to sign off at any stage, or can we just go ahead with our works, is my question. So frustrated as we've been waiting ages and I just want my new larger kitchen.

No, the landlord won't have to sign off on anything. We've just got a party wall award with our difficult neighbours who tried to be as difficult as possible (while not understanding what they could and couldn't do to hold things up). We had to appoint a surveyor for them but they weren't able to delay anything beyond the statutory periods for the various notices.

Brilliantly they tried to hold things up by being "away" (they weren't) and unable to give access for the survey. The surveyors just went ahead and issued the party wall award.

I would recommend getting a decent PW surveyor. We came across a few that didn't know what they were doing. Whole thing cost us just over £2k.

Thanks