neighbour dispute

olly300

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Except there doesn't actually seem to be evidence of any of this so it would just be an unsubstantiated allegation.

Doesn't matter.

Lots of employment contracts have clauses in them about giving the employer bad publicity. So lots of employers will have have a polite word if you phrase the letter correctly. (It happened to me years ago about something else.)

challengedavid

correct me if i am wrong
but i think i remember something on my water bills for drainage
and you did not have to pay this if your water drainage went into a soakway
if this is the case you could let him know by altering the guttering and it going into a sewer he will have to pay this charge???

also this could work against you if you are not paying it yourself

does any of this make sense or am i confused????

olly300

challengedavid wrote: »

correct me if i am wrong
but i think i remember something on my water bills for drainage
and you did not have to pay this if your water drainage went into a soakway
if this is the case you could let him know by altering the guttering and it going into a sewer he will have to pay this charge???

also this could work against you if you are not paying it yourself

does any of this make sense or am i confused????

Nope you aren't confused you are correct. See here

BobQ

I am still not covinced that the OP's view is the only correct view of this.

I do not know if this is pair of semis or a terrace but the original construction clearly did not have a downpipe going to a drain where the water butt was. It seems odd that none of the downpipes in the shared gutter in the group of houses goes down to a drain even if runs to another house.

If the neighbours patio has removed a drain or soakaway then this is clearly not the OP's problem.

But the OP states that the water that used to go down into the water butt now flows to the the boundary which their builder capped. The neighbour has put another piece of gutter there which allows water to extend over the boundary and is not capped. This suggests the water is still flowing downhill. If they left his bit of extra gutter in place and capped the end of it presumably it would fill up and overflow?

Is the OP sure that they have not stopped water draining from the neigbours roof into a drain further along the original gutter run?

I asked because my neighbour did something similar by raising their gutter and causing water to build up in my gutter., water that was designed to run originally into their downpipe. Fortunately they were more reasonable and saw that they had inadvertently misunderstood the way the roof drainage was designed.

xylophone

Collect the water from his "rogue" pipe yourself by placing a water butt under it - attach hose to the tap of the butt so that you can water your garden as and when you wish - thank him for the additional irrigation which is bringing your begonias on a treat.....;)

Fire_Fox

olly300 wrote: »

Doesn't matter.

Lots of employment contracts have clauses in them about giving the employer bad publicity. So lots of employers will have have a polite word if you phrase the letter correctly. (It happened to me years ago about something else.)

:wall: No really it does: you might want to engage your brain before you press submit. An employment tribunal would have a field day for someone being disciplined for a trumped up allegation! If you have done nothing wrong you have not caused the bad publicity, the person who contacted the press spuriously has. 'Quiet words' are just as illegal as disciplinaries if there is no case to answer.

Your employer may have broken the law, that doesn't make it any more likely this particular police force will - especially given they have a slightly better working knowledge of the law that the average boss. Most likely the police will take a very dim view of the OP making totally unsubstantiated allegations towards one of their employees and rightly so. We have an excellent legal system in the UK, why not advise people to use it?

DRP

xylophone wrote: »

Collect the water from his "rogue" pipe yourself by placing a water butt under it - attach hose to the tap of the butt so that you can water your garden as and when you wish - thank him for the additional irrigation which is bringing your begonias on a treat.....;)

If a civil relationship is irrevocable (and after 6 years it sounds so) , something along these lines seems sensible.

try to reroute any drainage so it doesn't damage your property. at the very least, it is less inflammatory than the silly tit for tat that has been happening.:p

Norman_Castle

If he continues to be bloody minded I think installing a butt on our side is a great idea since we lost our own when we went from using a soakaway to a proper drain we could benefit from this

Do it. Problem solved.

embob74

5446 wrote: »

i've no useful advice to offer to the OP .... but i can't see why his employer should be contacted and to be honest can't see why they'd be in the slightest bit interested. its nothing to do with his job whatsoever. if my employer was contacted by my neighbour about a private issue like this i'm pretty sure i know what they would do ........ nothing!

I don't think the employer should be contacted in this instance unless criminal damage is occurring but I do know of police officers who are quite happy to use their employment status when it suits them.
My boss had a police officer write a letter about the state of the road which he blamed on the work vehicles - and he mentioned he was an officer and the police authority were taking it seriously.
A civil matter but the officer was quite happy to use his weight to push for a solution in his favour.

poppysarah

What do the deeds say about gutters and shared drainage from the roof?