Neighbour's Wall is going to flood me.

LittleEms

Hi,
Newbie here, please be gentle Looking for a little advice if anyone can help. I live in a row of 5 1800's terraced houses next to a busy A road. I am second in the row and I and my neighbors to the left have block paved drives which slope downwards from the pavement towards the front of our houses. The neighbor to my right (the first in the row) has the largest house and a large gravel drive. When we have heavy rain the drains on the main road cannot cope and water floods in a torrent from the top of my neighbor (right side) drive and across the rest of the houses which slope downwards from the right side causing flooding (sometimes front door to back). Neighbor to the left has had enough and says he is going to build a boundary wall along his property to hold the water back on mine and neighbor to the rights land. Obviously this will have devastating effects for me and neighbor to the right. Just wondering if this is legal????? Of course I could build a wall to my right but could not do that and watch as my neighbor to the right floods at the slightest bit of rain. Council have tried to fix the problem by putting in storm drains but it's not helped Any advice would be HUGELY appreciated!!!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Would a set of houses that old be listed or in a conservation area, so they wouldn't be allowed to build a wall?


Seems a bit harsh when the people with the non permeable surface (the block paving to the left of you) is complaining that their non permeable surface has water collecting upon it.


Might be worth a chat to the guys in the council that are responsible for planning, as they may have advice about the best thing to do to drain the area without sticking hideous red brick walls up.

Jaynne

I guess you've looked into the option of digging some drainage in front of your house or all the houses if you have the same problem? Seems like a better solution than diverting the water onto your neightbours.