Can I reuse a neighbour's soil report for my own build?

No, genuinely not appropriate — soil conditions can vary meaningfully even between adjacent blocks, and a compliant foundation design needs a soil report specific to your own site, not an assumption based on a neighbour’s results.

While nearby soil reports can offer useful general context about an area’s typical conditions, they don’t replace the specific testing your own site needs for a genuinely compliant, properly informed foundation design.

Building surveyors and engineers require a soil report genuinely specific to your property as part of proper compliance documentation — a neighbour’s report, however similar the properties might seem, won’t satisfy this requirement.

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