Neighbours gutter!!

thechippy

Guy's

I'm in a terraced house and my gutter joins my neighbours.
Basically, her gutter is blocked to the point it has weeds growing out of it. Also, the downpipe is in her garden.

When it rains, the water has nowhere to go except overflow into our garden. What makes it worse, is it overflows above our back door to the point where the door is unusable when it rains - it's like a blasted waterfall!!

We have written to the neighbour politely asking that she gets the gutter cleaned - but nothing.

Is there a legal route to make her get them cleaned?
To be honest, we don't really care if we fall out with her. We've never got on that well and she is disliked by everyone who lives here.

Any advice appreciated.

POPPYOSCAR

Do you have legal cover on your house insurance?


If so give them a ring and they will advise you.

thechippy

Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure, so will have to look into it.

I've not found a lot of info on this to be honest, but sure I read that it's deemed something like an actionable nuisance??

POPPYOSCAR

If you do have legal cover and they think you have a case they will refer to a solicitor and they will deal with it.

Biggles

thechippy wrote: »

We have written to the neighbour politely asking that she gets the gutter cleaned - but nothing.

Written? Have you actually discussed it with her?

Swipe

Get hold of a pair of ladders and unblock it yourself. A blocked gutted is not worth starting a neighbour dispute over.

thechippy

Biggles wrote: »

Written? Have you actually discussed it with her?

You would need to know her. She will not discuss anything with anyone!!......;)

thechippy

Swipe wrote: »

Get hold of a pair of ladders and unblock it yourself. A blocked gutted is not worth starting a neighbour dispute over.

How without trespassing on her land?

southcoastrgi

Do you have an outside drain on your side ie where the kitchen sink waste pipe goes ?
If so why not put your own down pipe in ?

thechippy

southcoastrgi wrote: »

Do you have an outside drain on your side ie where the kitchen sink waste pipe goes ?
If so why not put your own down pipe in ?

Unfortunately not.
Main drains run under the house back to front. I don't realistically have anywhere to run a downpipe if I installed one.
I'd have to dig up the garden and build a soak-away at a lot of time and expense.

Davesnave

thechippy wrote: »

How without trespassing on her land?

If you are in England or Wales, you need the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1952...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/23/contents

....or maybe a potted version first!

http://www.mylawyer.co.uk/going-onto-your-neighbours-land-a-A76076D34458/