Party Wall Agreement Advice

[RubenGamb09]

Hey there,

Following planning approval after significant delays cause by neighbors, we finally are at a stage of processing with party wall agreements.
Naively my husband and I drafted the party wall agreement from an online template but modified it (big mistake) and dropped it off to one of neighbors who we thought was more amicable.
We quickly realized that the party wall form we had updated was incorrect, so we knocked at the neighbors (day after we had dropped off the document) and let them know we had made a mistake and they should disregard it and we will issue them an updated one, this time via surveyors.
We sought surveyor advice and will now be serving the party wall agreement via the surveyor.

However, when we knocked at the neighbors this morning to inform him that we made a mistake and that he disregard the initial docs... he was extremely angry, and said what we have done is illegal, won't stand up in court and that we have threatened him.
Note him and his wife are in their late 80s and are unhappy with our decision to do works in the garage where we share a wall.

We haven't started any works and aren't planning on doing anything till we have consent and all approvals in place.

I'm.highly stressed by the interaction this morning with her neighbor and now worried if legally he will cause us further problems?
Appreciate any advice.

Legally you have a right to do work on a party wall. Employing a specialist surveyor is the best route if works are contentious to ensure everything is served properly and proper arrangements are agreed. I obviously don't know the finite details of your plans, it may cost you a bit more in terms of mitigation etc if neighbours are not happy. But Party Wall surveyors 'should' act impartially in favour of the 'wall' and act it the best interests of keeping the wall in tact etc than playing people off against each other just because they are grumpy about the work.

I wouldn't worry; when the surveyor does it, it will be enforceable whether they sign it now or wait for that period to complete. They have no proof you threatened you, because you (presumably) didn't. I guess they don't have long left, won't go out much and will get weeks of noise for no benefit, and potentially end up with cracks etc. I think you're fine.

Yes correct, we've been nothing but considerate but they just seem very unhappy with us doing any works and keep saying we are too old for this noise etc. The only mistake we made was in the original document we shared with them which we then apologised for and informed them that our surveyor will be in touch