Who do I have to serve notice upon?

You'll need to serve notice on any neighbours affected by your work, or within notifiable distances of your excavations.

Notice should be served on anyone with more than 1 year's interest in a neighbouring property. This usually includes the freeholder, and any leaseholders. Notice is not normally required upon tenants, who are often on a 12 month (or less) rolling contract.

If you need to prepare more than one notice, you can run through our generator as many times as you like, changing the names/property of the adjoining owner, and the works applicable to each.

If you don't know your neighbours name, or they do not live at the property (i.e. a landlord), you can normally attain their details from the Land Registry website. The Land Registry website allows you to search for neighbouring properties by postcode and attain a copy of their 'title register'. You'll need to register for an account and pay a fee (£3). Once attained, you will find the name and address of the registered owner in section B (Proprietorship Register).