Protecting a drain.

Nigelw

Any advice from drain experts would be much appreciated .
Many thanks

brightontraveller

First step call to your water authority try and verify? Then who is responsible what’s required etc.

You may find that as from oct 2011 the responsibility for many private sewers and lateral drains which drain to a public sewer and extend beyond your property boundary transferred to water and sewerage companies.
There are rules and permissions required for this but depends if it Private,.shared lateral, public drain etc.

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/tw/common/downloads/your-business-developer-services/building-over-a-public-sewer.pdf

Also Section H4 of 'Building Regulations, Approved Document H', thinks there are also new changes coming out oct 2015

brightontraveller

Nigelw wrote: »

Many thanks for your input brightontraveller. The drain/sewer is private and serves to carry the treated water overflow from a biotec treatment plant for 3 rural properties.The pipe runs under my neighbour and out into a field and gradually soaks away into the ground so I am pretty sure that the water company have no interest or responsibilty for it.
I have looked at H4 and it says pretty much what was noted on his original plan that it should be moved or protected at his expense. I assume that still applies to any further work that is carried out over the drain.
What i would like to know is if placing a concrete slab over it and parking and running cars above it would require additional protection or is it at a suitable depth not to require protecting.

It is one of a number of solutions, If correct, suitable in this installation impossible to say without seeing it ?

As to whose responsible check covenant, easements etc first that allowed passage across land liability etc , second any development of land etc should be defined in those… if there no restrictions etc to not alot you can do about it ?Any attempt to enforce any measure's would be costly and there would be no guarantee of winning...

If the pipe where to become damaged, need replacing etc at a later date you'd need to define whose responsible or if you couldn’t come to an agreement with land owner then repair/ replacement liability would most likely end up in the courts