We have taken a look at one of the main regulating bodies within the Party Wall Surveying industry the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors and we will now take a look at the other, the Pyramus and Thisbe Club.
Taken from http://www.partywalls.org.uk/about_pt
‘P&T is an organisation for professionals with a particular interest in matters relating to the Party Wall etc Act 1996. The Club seeks to advance knowledge of party wall legislation and procedure and to promote best professional practice in its application.
The Pyramus & Thisbe Club was set up in 1974 by leading party wall surveyors of the time following widespread misreporting of the case of “Gyle-Thompson v Wallstreet Properties Ltd 1974”. Originally meeting in the Little Ship in the City of London, the Club met for over 28 years in the Café Royal. It was originally limited to 100 members but grew because of the pressures to provide a venue where CPD could take place in the widest sense of the word. Junior surveyors wished to join in order to learn the skills required of a party wall professional. At that time party wall legislation, Part VI of the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939, only applied in the inner London boroughs.
The name of the Club comes from the characters of Pyramus and Thisbe in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, two lovers separated by a wall and who come to a sad end as a result of the dispute between their fathers.
The Club played a pivotal role in the framing of the present Party Wall etc. Act 1996 and several members were present in the House when the Bill was introduced into the House of Lords and during the committee stages where amendments were made. The Party Wall Bill was sponsored through Parliament by John Lytton, The Earl of Lytton, and a past Chairman of the Club.’
The website and club offer excellent advice to both industry professionals and lay people looking for a source of information.
If you are served a Party Structure Notice, Excavation Notice or Line of Junction Notice, the club can help you find a suitable local surveyor.
