House Extensions in Hessle

East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Hessle is outside the Hull city boundary, so it is assessed under the East Riding local plan rather than by Hull City Council, even though the two are neighbours. We submit through the Planning Portal and deal with the case officer directly.

Under planning, the council consults them for you. Under the Party Wall etc. Act you serve notice yourself, in writing, and that is a legal requirement rather than a courtesy. If you are working on a shared wall, building to the boundary or digging near their foundations, notice is needed.

Dissenting does not stop the work. It moves the process to a party wall award, prepared either by one agreed surveyor or by one appointed by each side. The award sets out how and when the work is done and records the condition of the neighbour's property beforehand.

The statutory periods differ by the type of work and run into weeks, and the clock only starts once the notice is properly served on the correct owner. That is why we raise it at design stage rather than once the builder has a start date, because served late it delays everything behind it.

Sometimes, but there are three separate questions. Whether planning or permitted development allows it, particularly the tighter eaves height limit near a boundary. Whether the Act requires notice for building at the line of junction. And whether you can maintain the wall afterwards without going onto your neighbour's land.

Not always. Many single storey rear extensions are permitted development, subject to limits on depth, height and eaves height, with attached houses treated more restrictively than detached ones. Rights are reduced in conservation areas and can be removed by an Article 4 direction or by a condition.

Generally yes. Side extensions are more visible from the street and they close the gap between properties, which councils tend to want preserved. Setting the extension back from the front elevation, keeping it narrower than the original house and pitching the roof to match usually make the difference.

It depends whose drain it is. A private branch serving only your house can often be diverted. A public sewer or shared lateral drain normally needs a build over agreement with the water authority, and the foundation has to be designed to protect it. A survey at the start settles which one you have.

Materials are a planning consideration where an application is needed, and the usual expectation is that the new work sits comfortably with the old rather than matching it exactly, which is rarely possible with older brick anyway. A deliberate contrast can work well at the rear where it is not seen from the street.

Yes. North Ferriby, Swanland, Brough, Anlaby and Kirk Ella all fall to East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and we work across them. The policy framework is the same across all of them, while the housing stock and plot sizes vary a good deal.

Yes. This is an architect-led design and build practice, so the person who designs the scheme oversees the construction. That removes the gap where a builder reinterprets a drawing, and it means the build cost quoted at the outset is the one we hold to.

The heaviest stretch is groundworks at the start and the day the existing rear wall is opened up. Most of the new structure is built before that happens, so the period when your house is genuinely open is short. We set the sequence out with the quote so you can plan around it.