A quick reading of replies to standard enquiries relating to building consents may indicate that there is nothing more to investigate. But the buyer’s solicitor could be wrong, as demonstrated in Cottingham v Attey Bower & Jones [2000] EGCS 48 – which, incidentally, questions the adequacy of a form of enquiry (not used by the defendant) recommended in the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook.
Related case: see
A quick reading of replies to standard enquiries relating to building consents may indicate that there is nothing more to investigate. But the buyer’s solicitor could be wrong, as demonstrated in Cottingham v Attey Bower & Jones [2000] EGCS 48 – which, incidentally, questions the adequacy of a form of enquiry (not used by the defendant) recommended in the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook.
Related case: see PP 2002/57
