neighbour altered drainpipe to our house. Is it allowed????

bclark

Have you spoken to the Council or planners? I would suggest you do it this afternoon and it could save you a great deal of worry. I would imagine that she has no right to do what she has done even though the drainpipe is technically on her side of the boundary.

veryskint_3

BobProperty wrote: »

Let me get this correct. The original layout and the new layout were on the basis of rainwater draining onto her side of the property, so you must have the right to do this. Her actions are now 1. Preventing you completing this as per Building Control and 2. Potentially will cause damage to your property. I would be writing to her stating this and pointing out that you will hold her responsible for any damage to your property caused by her action (this might have an effect). What I would also do is contact Environmental Health as she has now caused a "nuisance" (maybe?) by stopping your rainwater flow. This will become a health and or environmental hazard which hopefully they will require to be put right. (Usually pretty quickly, we are talking days or a couple of weeks here)

The nasty techie part of me says I would put an outlet at the end of my gutter with an outflow shoe on my side of the boundary of the property but flowing onto her side. Fixed with an unusually large number of clips, held with security screws and painted in burglar paint.

Thanks so much for your help it has really cheered me up especially the last bit

Poppycat

I would put a note through here door to ask her to reinstate the guttering immediately, as it was due to the work she has had, and any delay may cause damage to your property due to water penetration and she may be held accountable

paddy's_mum

Oh dear, veryskint - it really hasn't been your year so far, has it?! I am truly sorry to learn that you have yet another burden placed upon you.

You may care to put this one on www.gardenlaw.co.uk for further advice.

For what it's worth, I am quite sure that you have a right, documented or implied, to discharge rainwater down the shared downpipe. I would be writing a very courteous letter to the silly woman headed 'Putting you on Notice' that her unreasonable actions will very quickly cause an actionable nuisance/serious damage to your property and, as Poppycat has already said, she will indeed be held accountable, through the Small Claims Court if need be. Good luck and I hope the rains hold off until you can get it sorted.

veryskint_3

paddy's_mum wrote: »

Oh dear, veryskint - it really hasn't been your year so far, has it?! I am truly sorry to learn that you have yet another burden placed upon you.

You may care to put this one on www.gardenlaw.co.uk for further advice.

For what it's worth, I am quite sure that you have a right, documented or implied, to discharge rainwater down the shared downpipe. I would be writing a very courteous letter to the silly woman headed 'Putting you on Notice' that her unreasonable actions will very quickly cause an actionable nuisance/serious damage to your property and, as Poppycat has already said, she will indeed be held accountable, through the Small Claims Court if need be. Good luck and I hope the rains hold off until you can get it sorted.

Thanks for the support on both forums!! She has been like this since April but her last stunt has really p****d me off. From what i can gather from the deeds then we do have shared drainpipes (lot of legal jargon again:rolleyes: ) The council have said there is nothing they can do about it so we have to see yet ANOTHER solicitor to get her to put it right. ive just about had enough now as its not as if we've done the extension on purpose to wind people up. I will let you know how i get on. But all this stress is really getting to me now.

velvetybubbles

sounds to me like shes jealous,she even went to the trouble of paying someone to alter what your builder had done,how sad try not to let it bother you she is the one with the problem!!

veryskint_3

velvetybubbles wrote: »

sounds to me like shes jealous,she even went to the trouble of paying someone to alter what your builder had done,how sad try not to let it bother you she is the one with the problem!!

Thanks i think your right although it doesnt help that i have some guttering with stoppers on each end so when it rains it will overflow.

budget_counsellor_shaz

Hi,

I'm confused when I had a new kitchen extension built, we had to have a soak away for the new building. I was not allowed to use the main sewer for the rain water. We had to dig a huge big hole away from the house and this was part filled with stones then earth and used for the gutter water.

I was under the impression all new builds were like this because of the water table.

Do some councils work differently then

Shaz

veryskint_3

budget_counsellor_shaz wrote: »

Hi,

I'm confused when I had a new kitchen extension built, we had to have a soak away for the new building. I was not allowed to use the main sewer for the rain water. We had to dig a huge big hole away from the house and this was part filled with stones then earth and used for the gutter water.

I was under the impression all new builds were like this because of the water table.

Do some councils work differently then

Shaz

Hi on our plans there was nothing of a soakaway just that the guttering should interlink with the original guttering (hers)

BobProperty

veryskint wrote: »

Thanks for the support on both forums!! She has been like this since April but her last stunt has really p****d me off. From what i can gather from the deeds then we do have shared drainpipes (lot of legal jargon again:rolleyes: ) The council have said there is nothing they can do about it so we have to see yet ANOTHER solicitor to get her to put it right. ive just about had enough now as its not as if we've done the extension on purpose to wind people up. I will let you know how i get on. But all this stress is really getting to me now.

That's why I'm suggesting asking Environmental Health to check it out. Otherwise you will have to commence a civil action in the courts to follow it through and I can immediately see one way in which she could mess you about for months if you take that approach.