6 Adjacent excavation and construction
Party Wall etc Act 1996 (1996 c 40) | Legislation

Adjacent excavation and construction

6  Adjacent excavation and construction

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a building owner proposes to excavate, or excavate for and erect a building or structure, within a distance of three metres measured horizontally from any part of a building or structure of an adjoining owner; and

(b)     any part of the proposed excavation, building or structure will within those three metres extend to a lower level than the level of the bottom of the foundations of the building or structure of the adjoining owner.

(2)     This section also applies where—

(a)     a building owner proposes to excavate, or excavate for and erect a building or structure, within a distance of six metres measured horizontally from any part of a building or structure of an adjoining owner; and

(b)     any part of the proposed excavation,

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