UK

Construction and ‘Neighbour Risk’ – Common Law Variants

Philip Britton

October 2018

The paper is a completely revised and much extended version of Paper D170 (July 2014). It considers the many situations in which the law may support a neighbour in imposing limits on the theoretically unlimited freedom of action of an owner or developer close by, who wishes to undertake construction. All these are – or may be – scenarios in which a construction project is subject to ‘neighbour risk’.

The paper’s main objective is to answer a pair of linked questions: