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who is responsible for shared sewer?
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After reading a similar post I wanted to ask this...
I live in a property where the sewer for this and several other houses is located beneath a shared pathway.
It may require work doing to it.
We own a leasehold on a flat, which is not on the ground floor.
My hope is that, even if this property is liable for the costs of repair, then legally the freeholder would have to pay.
Am I correct or not?
I live in a property where the sewer for this and several other houses is located beneath a shared pathway.
It may require work doing to it.
We own a leasehold on a flat, which is not on the ground floor.
My hope is that, even if this property is liable for the costs of repair, then legally the freeholder would have to pay.
Am I correct or not?
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You'll ned to refer to your lease, and possibly also the deeds to the freehold.
Assuming the sewer is not adopted by the water company, then the most likely scenario is that responsibility is shared by all the properties using it.
And where one property (like yours) is split into flats/leaseholds, then each lease-owner would have to contribute. That contribution might come from the annual service charge, or from a contingency fund if there is one, or from a one-off payment.0 -
If the problem can wait until October 2011, the government intends that the responsibility for shared pipes on public property will become the responsibility of the water companies.
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If the problem can wait until October 2011, the government intends that the responsibility for shared pipes on public property will become the responsibility of the water companies.
http://www.bpf.org.uk/en/what_we_do/commercial/water_issues.php
great news, thanks!0 -
We've had two lots of blocked sewers down our road in recent years, and we've shared the cost of getting the "water board" in to sort it. I don't think we even stopped to find out whose fault it was, just got it sorted. Worked out about a tenner each house which was fine. Everyone is now much more careful about flushing things like baby wipes etc.0
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If the problem can wait until October 2011, the government intends that the responsibility for shared pipes on public property will become the responsibility of the water companies.
http://www.bpf.org.uk/en/what_we_do/commercial/water_issues.php
Except that the OP said:located beneath a shared pathway.0 -
Sewers located on public property are already the responsibilty of the water companies. On private property, the water companies are only responsible if the sewers are pre-1935.Never Knowingly Understood.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935What happened in 1935?0 -
Hi
If its a private sewer then whoever is upstream of the problem is liable even if they did not cause the problem. It would be worth giving your local Council Environmental Health office for advice as to who pays what.Find out who you are and do that on purpose (thanks to Owain Wyn Jones quoting Dolly Parton)0 -
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