Our residential property expertise will provide you with top-tier advice and legal solutions to your Party Wall matter. The Party Wall Act 1996 provides that any work which may impede the structural strength or support function of the party wall, has the potential to damage the neighbouring property or cause inconvenience to the neighbouring occupiers, can only commence if the proprietors of the adjoining property have served with a written notice. Failure to comply with such requirements gives rise to a potential claim against the proprietor who conducts the building work.