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Build over agreement on 95 year old building?
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Koicarp
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I'm just part exchanging my 1920 semi for a new build. We have a completion date next week but the builder's solicitor has now said they want me to buy an indemnity policy as the detached garage, which was built at the same time as the house is over a sewer.
I get the impression that build over agreements come from the 1991 water act, surely it can't apply to a structure built 71 years earlier...can it?
I get the impression that build over agreements come from the 1991 water act, surely it can't apply to a structure built 71 years earlier...can it?
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Building over agreements were around before 1991, as I had one in 1989, but it was with the local council, who then owned the sewers.0
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I'm just part exchanging my 1920 semi for a new build. We have a completion date next week but the builder's solicitor has now said they want me to buy an indemnity policy as the detached garage, which was built at the same time as the house is over a sewer.
I get the impression that build over agreements come from the 1991 water act, surely it can't apply to a structure built 71 years earlier...can it?
Indemnity policies don't cost much so just do it. fj0
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