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Party Wall Notices in Kent: What Homeowners Need to Know

Extending, converting a loft, or digging foundations in Kent? The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 applies across the county — from Dartford to Canterbury. Here's how to serve a compliant notice, and where to find a local surveyor if you need one.

Kent's housing stock is exactly the kind the Party Wall Act was written for: Victorian terraces in Medway and Gravesend, 1930s semis across Dartford, Bromley and Orpington, and closely-spaced period homes in Canterbury, Faversham and the Weald. If your project touches a shared wall, builds up to the boundary, or digs within three metres of next door, you must serve a party wall notice before you start — wherever in the county you are.

The three notices that apply in Kent (and everywhere in England and Wales)

  • Section 1 — new walls on or at the boundary (one month's notice)
  • Section 3 — works to a shared wall or structure, like loft conversion steels or chimney breast removal (two months' notice)
  • Section 6 — excavation within 3–6 metres of a neighbouring building, which catches most extension foundations (one month's notice, drawings required)

The law is national, so a notice generated online is exactly as valid in Maidstone or Margate as one drafted by a local firm — what matters is that the contents are correct. Our generator produces compliant notices from £30 each, with the response forms your neighbour needs to consent.

Party wall surveyors covering Kent

If your neighbour dissents (or ignores the notice for 14 days), surveyors get involved. Our panel includes experienced party wall surveyors covering Kent whose professional qualifications and memberships include RICS, the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors, and the Pyramus & Thisbe Society:

Or search by your own postcode to see who covers your street.

Typical Kent scenarios

  1. Rear extension on a Medway terrace: Section 6 notice to each attached neighbour for the foundations; often Section 1 for the new flank wall.
  2. Loft conversion in a Dartford semi: Section 3 notice for the steel beams bearing into the party wall — two months before works.
  3. New boundary wall in Canterbury: Section 1 notice, one month before building at the line of junction.

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