End-to-end Party Wall Act 1996 service for Greenwich — Section 1, 3 and 6 notices, schedule of condition surveys, party wall award coordination. We handle the process so your Greenwich build starts without neighbour disputes.
A party wall services package in Greenwich, where the stock is largely Georgian in Greenwich town centre; Victorian terraces in East Greenwich, is the full measured-survey-to-submission drawing set Royal Borough of Greenwich needs in order to determine an application: existing and proposed plans, elevations and sections at 1:100 and 1:50, a location and site plan, and the supporting statements the case officer asks for.
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End-to-end Party Wall Act 1996 service for Greenwich — Section 1, 3 and 6 notices, schedule of condition surveys, party wall award coordination. We handle the process so your Greenwich build starts without neighbour disputes.
Housing stock in Greenwich: Georgian in Greenwich town centre; Victorian terraces in East Greenwich, Charlton; inter-war semi-detached in Eltham; new-build along the riverside.
Character: World Heritage Site status in Greenwich town centre adds heritage weight; outer borough areas (Eltham, Thamesmead) generally permissive.
Three sections can bite, and the page they are usually printed on gets two of them the wrong way round. A wall built at the boundary line falls under section 1. Cutting into, raising or underpinning the wall you share is section 2 work, and the notice for it is the section 3 notice. Excavation close to the neighbour's foundations is section 6. We check a Greenwich project against all three.
Compliant notices go out to every adjoining owner, and from the date of service we watch two separate deadlines: how long the statutory notice period runs, and the fourteen days within which the neighbour can object.
A schedule of condition, photographed and written up, is taken on the adjoining properties before anything begins. It is dull work and it is the single most useful document in the file when somebody points at a crack six months later.
The Act wants to see precisely what is proposed, so the drawings put the work, the shared wall, the foundations under it and the neighbour's building on the same sheet at the same scale.
Where a neighbour dissents, the award has to be produced by surveyors. Sometimes that is one surveyor acting for both owners; sometimes it is two. We handle the appointment either way.
Once the award process starts we stay involved: agreeing method statements, settling how temporary works will be done, arranging access. It ends when the award is signed and you can put a spade in the ground.
Single planning or regs submission.
Planning + building regs + structural.
Listed, conservation, complex sites.
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Greenwich postcode by postcode below: what the housing is, and which council determines a planning application from it. Worth saying plainly, because the column heading implies otherwise - a party wall notice is served on your neighbour and is not validated, approved or seen by any council. The pound figures are 2026 statutory planning fees.
| Postcode | Area | Dominant stock | What it means for a party wall package |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE2 | Abbey Wood | Georgian in Greenwich town centre; Victorian terraces in East Greenwich | SE2, Abbey Wood, is shared with Bexley. Establish the planning authority from the address before submitting. Ground conditions towards the marshes are the reason the section 6 excavation test comes up often here. |
| SE3 | Blackheath / Kidbrooke | Georgian villas, Victorian terraces | SE3 spans Blackheath and Kidbrooke across the Greenwich and Lewisham boundary. Confirm the authority before drawings go in. The large detached and semi-detached plots here mean some projects notify nobody at all. |
| SE7 | Charlton | Victorian villas, 1930s semi-detached | SE7 is Charlton, all of it Greenwich. Inter-war and post-war housing predominates, and cavity construction of that period changes what a party structure notice actually has to describe. |
| SE9 | Eltham / Mottingham | 1930s semi-detached, post-war flats | SE9 covers Eltham and Mottingham and is divided between Greenwich and Bromley. The address, not the postcode, tells you which of the two authorities decides a planning application; your obligations to the neighbour are the same on both sides of that line. |
| SE10 | Greenwich | Georgian terraces, listed buildings | SE10 is Greenwich proper, entirely within the borough. A high concentration of listed and designated fabric means party wall work here frequently sits alongside a heritage consent rather than a straightforward householder application. |
| SE18 | Woolwich / Plumstead | Georgian fragments, post-war estates, new-build | SE18, Woolwich and Plumstead. Greenwich Council determines planning here. The Victorian terraced streets running up the hill mean an adjoining owner on both sides is the normal case, not the exception. |
| SE28 | Thamesmead | Post-war estates, new-build | SE28 covers Thamesmead only; Greenwich Council handles the party wall package. |
How deep the neighbouring foundations sit, what the shared wall is actually built of, and how much room there is between buildings all vary across Greenwich, and between them they settle which parts of the Act your project engages.
Greenwich conservation designations: there are 20 across Greenwich Council, Eltham Park, Greenwich Town Centre (World Heritage Site), Blackheath among them. Designation costs a Greenwich owner the permitted-development route: a party wall package then needs a £548 householder application over 8 weeks, in place of the £249 prior approval route that takes 6 weeks. Eltham Park is the Greenwich designation that most often changes a party wall package design.
Article 4 and your Greenwich party wall package: Greenwich Council has made no borough-wide direction, so permitted development for a party wall package in Greenwich generally survives outside Greenwich conservation areas and listed curtilages. A Lawful Development Certificate at £274 is how a SE2 owner records that a party wall package was lawful.
The building fabric around Greenwich: Georgian in Greenwich town centre; Victorian terraces in East Greenwich, Charlton; inter-war semi-detached in Eltham; new-build along the riverside. World Heritage Site status in Greenwich town centre adds heritage weight; outer borough areas (Eltham, Thamesmead) generally permissive. A party wall package in Greenwich is scoped against that stock first, because it decides whether the scheme runs as permitted development, a £274 Lawful Development Certificate, or a full £548 application to Greenwich Council.
Sources for this Greenwich party wall package page: borough policies maps and conservation-area registers (2025–26), Royal Mail postcode district boundaries, the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (England) Regulations, the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended, and the Party Wall etc. Act 1996.
The party wall questions Greenwich owners put to us, with the answers set out as plainly as the legislation permits.
Start a free quote →A Greenwich project needs notices if it puts a wall on the boundary line itself, section 1; if it cuts into or alters the party structure, which is served under section 3; or if it digs close to next door's foundations - three metres on the ordinary test, six on the deeper one - which brings in section 6. Loft conversions, rear extensions and basements almost always fall into one of those.
Consent costs nothing beyond the notice. Dissent means surveyors, charged for each adjoining owner who dissents, and it is worth keeping that in proportion: Greenwich property had a median sale price of £460,000 in 2025 across 2,635 transactions on the Land Registry's price-paid file, with the lower quartile at £365,000 and the upper at £600,000 - and the median was unchanged on 2024. A surveyor's fee is a rounding error against the asset, and an injunction that stops the build is not. Our Complete packages include the notices. Fees are below. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
Where the neighbours all consent, the wait is simply the notice period, and the periods are not the fourteen days people quote. It is one month for a line of junction notice under section 1, two months for a party structure notice under section 3, one month for an adjacent excavation notice under section 6. Fourteen days is the window in which the neighbour may reply: the adjoining owner has fourteen days to respond. Where the matter goes to surveyors, budget 6 to 8 weeks on top for the award. Serving early lets all of this run while the planning application is still with Greenwich.
No. Notifiable work begun in Greenwich without valid notice, or before the award exists, puts you in breach of the 1996 Act. The consequences run from an injunction halting the site to a damages claim, plus the loss of rights the Act would have given you against the neighbour. Getting notices out at the right moment is what stops any of that touching the programme.
Fourteen days of silence from a Greenwich adjoining owner is not permission - the Act reads it as a dissent, and the surveyor machinery starts. From there you appoint a surveyor, the neighbour may appoint one of their own with the bill coming to you, or the pair of you agree to use a single surveyor for both. We keep that moving rather than letting it drift.
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