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Update: neighbour is off on holiday, no contact with the roofers as really we have no contract and connection with them. We called our insurers - we have legal cover included. Speaking with their legal advisers it appears we have no claim to make as there is no loss (yet). No loss, no claim to the courts either. They said min 12 months wait to get near to a small claim court and even if we win it may be a couple of hundreds if there is no loss. Our cost to get there would be higher than the amount we would win. It appears that property rights are not respected and the legislative aparatus is useless when it comes to private property.

Thank you, we were trying to avoid this but we have no choice now

Further development. Our neighbour is saying she is happy with the work, the whole thing gives her anxiety. She wants us to meet with her and the roofer to close the matter, she is now saying she is allowing building regs. I have not heard back from Building Control, I cannot get through to them any more, I keep getting a recorded message "someone from the council tried to call you, we will call you back shortly". We had asked for a warranty from the roofer, and we received by email a zero-value invoice. There is no text in the body of the email (from a gmail address) and the invoice only contains our details and a reference number. there is no company name, address, contact person or number. A search on companies house shows there is no company under the name used in the email address. We are now told that it is a sole trader, not a company and our neighbour has no contract, she has sent us a copy of a leaflet received by post. We asked to see their insurance, nothing is forthcoming. We called the Citizens Advice Bureau and got through to some national line, as CAB only works 2 days a week for a couple of hours. They advised to claim negligence against the roofers. 1 - we do not have the details of the roofers, a certain Joe using a trade name that cannot be found online. 2 - this was not some damage done by mistake, it was a deliberate decision to ignore our rights and replace our tiles Our neighbour is saying she will consider the matter closed, she is going on holiday!

Thank you very much for your advice, we will certainly follow it.

We are actually in a conservation area. Building control said they needed to have applied for authorisation. I do not know where this is going. Our concern is that we complained to the neighbour, she appears to be nice but says speak to my roofers. She's given them our number (which we're not that happy about) and they are calling asking how to put it right. We have no idea what to say. We said to them to put back our old tiles and move the bonding to the demarcation line of the properties, however we do not know if this is a good idea any more as we do not trust them. Another question mark for us is whether there should be secret valleys on both sides of the house and from the top to the bottom. We are assuming so.

I attach photos of how we discovered the roof was being replaced. Our house is at the right, the one with the dormer. The demarcation line between the properties is at the left of the downpipe

We have recently purchased an 1873 terraced house with original flint tiles roof. We had to do some internal sanitasing jobs and we have not moved in yet. Last week we went to finish some jobs and found our next door neighbour replacing their roof with some sort of plastic/composite tiles. Without any warning of any planned work, we found her roofers on our roof. Part of the original flint tiles on our roof had been removed. We talked to the roofers and to the neighbour and asked about party wall agreement, building control, etc. They tried to convince us nothing of this sort was needed and that we should be grateful that they are re-tiling part of our roof. Whilst we understand the roof may not be in its prime, we had no leaks, no problems. The roofers tried to convince us to change now our part of the roof too, quoting £9k, a discounted rate since they were already on the roof. Nevertheless, we do not have the funds and have no reason to prioritise this and we refused. We are unhappy with the fact that without consultation we had part of our tiles removed. Also with the fact that the bonding was installed on our part of the roof, not on the demarcation line of the properties. The bonding was installed in a busy area with chimneys and at the edge of our dormer. The likelihood of leaks is now high. We talked to the neighbour and provided her with the phone number of the council's building controllers. She said she could not go through therefore we called them and they confirmed there should have been an approval in place, a party wall agreement and building regs have to be adhered to. They promised to send someone to inspect, however the roofers have now "finished" their job and we do not know whether they've done a good job. It certainly doesn't look like it. They installed a secret valley, however this appears to be only from our dormer down. Our tiles linked to the valley are at a strange angle. There does not appear to be any valley installed at the back. Any advice