Should I report this to Building Control

[MildlyMiserable]

Sorry, this is a long one, I apologise in advance if it’s rambling I’m still raging.
I’ve lived in a terraced house for 20 years, lovely neighbour sadly passed away a couple of years ago, her house was finally sold last June so I was delighted it wasn’t going to be left empty.
Met the new neighbours last June, lovely couple of guys, explained they intended to carry out roof and rear extension under permitted development, all fine, had the PW Agreement to go through. Unfortunately the architect hadn’t taken into account their building was in the middle of a terrace, guttering, drainage etc. Some tooing and froing. Finally signed PW end Nov, no notice of works, next week foundations dug and all downhill from there.
They had been doing non notifiable works already, suddenly a water leak occurred, I can’t prove it was due to their works, but...... I arranged for the water board to deal.
There have been issues with loose scaffolding in storms, I’ve called the scaffold company to remedy it. Working out of hours, accessing my property without notice, breaking my gutter and then saying it’s not even mine, lots of issues. The owners are very friendly, the builder a bully, the job is running late and the builder is trying to apportion some of the blame on arranging access into my property to build a wall, the access has been agreed for over a month, this week his site Manager asked if we could go ahead and do the work- all fine once protection in place, on Thursday before I left for work this was done.
Two different jobs were discussed 1. Main roof - render to match existing- front, this is to be done next week

1. Wall to be built and capped with ridge tiles , this is to be done this week

the picture I am going to post is supposed to be a wall - I have not asked for this to be rendered at any stage. I sent an email to the builder and the owners with pictures of the structure at 8.38am yesterday, spent the day emailing with builder and PW (mine) surveyor saying wall should be built and not rendered- last picture is from this morning 😖 (Aside from all the work related stuff also the drama of a successful break in (early on), a break in a fortnight ago - called police and burglar apprehended, and another attempt last week). Remember - a wall, my question is do I report this to Building Control? It’s not even a wall to start off with! If you’ve made it to the end I hope it made some sense.

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I read your post and found it confusing and much of it seemingly not relevant. Was that wall previously exposed brick or not?

Not sure what the issue is due to confusing post.

Is the photo of a "wall" they have built that looks very unsafe? Yes I would report it!

I know very little about bricklaying but even so I imagine the first rule is that the bricks are laid level and not at a 40 degree angle! Presumably they have rendered the wall to hide the botched brickwork. Yes, report to Building Control. Let the owners know too. I would be concerned about the rest of their work on the extension.

Thanks for responding, there were adjoining outhouses here before, they’ve demolished and built an extension, which is fine.
In my opinion they should have built this wall and then the roof but they’ve done it the other way around.
They have built onto the existing party wall. I’ll add the before pics.

Sorry, about the confusing post, was trying to give a back story.
I emailed the owners and builder about the state of the wall first thing yesterday, got home too late last night see anything, checked this morning to see the render done.

Ye s do get on to Building Control, it's the builders cutting corners and rendering to cover botched brickwork. You don't want your side to leak

I'd be worried about it collapsing!

Thanks all, sorry again for the rambling.
I feel for the owners, at least this is just an external outhouse wall for me, they’ve had the whole property done.

Ah - so that's new brickwork which they've rendered? I agree it looks very poor and the render is hiding the botched work in that case. Good thing you've taken photos of the work progressing.

Oh my that is some of the worst bricklaying I’ve seen in years! No wonder it was rendered!
I would be very concerned because it’s a party wall.

Definitely get onto building control!!

I’m wondering if that’s why it was rendered, maybe there was a BC inspection, though there were emails confirming no rendering to be done all day yesterday?

I’ve had plenty of building work done and that wall is a disgrace. As other posters have said contact building control and show them the photos.
It looks like it has been rendered to cover up the shoddy bricklaying.

Yes I would definitely report that. The wall is unsafe and poses a risk

Bloody hell that looks like a 3 year old has built it.

I reported something near to me to building control at our local council about 3 yrs ago. They were extremely helpful, inspected quickly & kept me updated all the way through (turned out everything was fine). No help to you I know, but still a positive story

You need to keep a record of every single thing the builders have done and which has had an impact on your house - the leak, the loose scaffolding, dodgy wall, all of it. If the new owners are as nice as you say, they will want to know about this and they may want to change builder. Is there a project manager you can contact to share your concerns? (We had a nightmare builder and have previously had neighbours doing building work, so I feel your pain.)

The neighbours have agreed to knock what has been built and have a proper wall built. I’m going to request it is built as per the permitted development plans and inspected by building control. No more crossed wires. Thanks for all of your responses.

Presumably neighbours were horrified at the state of the wall when you showed them?

I think it so but it took them a week to respond. I don’t think the builder cares, he wants to be finished and it doesn’t matter if it’s fit for purpose, if it’s rendered you can’t see it. I don’t know what it was rendered with as it still isn’t dry!

As far as I’m aware, any permitted development additions have to be done in the same material as the existing property, so rendering presumably would break that anyway.
Definitely get onto them - looks horrifically shoddy! No way would I be happy with that!!