Neighbor refused to sign to acknowledge our work
This is in England Berkshire and it’s about partition wall.
I’m not UK native and new to all these. Basically I bought a house that needs some work. One of them is removing a load bearing wall between kitchen and utility room. Had the structural engineer came on site and did the calculations. Report said needs a trail pit etc.
Found a builder said they could do the work but I need to submit building control request (building notice). So went on the council website and did the form. One of the questions ask whether this involves partition wall act.
Not sure so asked my structure engineer he said should not. The padstone is on our wall.
Anyway I was being super caution because I saw somewhere else mentioned about trail pit would trigger a partition wall act if it’s within 3m of the neighbors.
So I had a letter of acknowledgment written and approached to the lady who lives beside us. She refused to sign anything. Stating that she is not comfortable signing to something she does not have knowledge of (even tho the letter is just saying about the work we are going to do and nothing else)
Now I understand that people might be cautious or scared of signing and she also refused to provide a picture of her kitchen wall shape to us (builder wants to verify the depth of the wall)
Builder said that it’s fine. As long as we’ve talked with her and the building control gives certificate, we should not be in any trouble for doing this work. Also no trouble for selling the house in the future.
If someone know about the building control stuff and whether I have done it correctly? Without the signed letter it would be ok as well?
Any advice would be appreciated 🙏