Public Sewer within the boundary of the property

mrschaucer

g_raju wrote: »

The house in question is a semi-detached and the sewer line goes in the common shared access path with the neighbor to our back gardens. The sewer line does not go all the way to the end of the property and stops in the common access path.

Sounds like you wouldn't be able to build over the sewer anyway, so no problem there. It is likely that there is a drain from your house joining a drain from your neighbour in the access way, which then goes out to the road where there will be a larger sewer. Very common in semis.

Doozergirl

All this speculation! For what?

OP, the drainage search map will be colour coded and tell you what size the pipe is. Please tell us.

g_raju

teneighty wrote: »

If it is marked as a public sewer on the water companies plans then it is probably a proper adopted public sewer not just an old shared drain. It would be unlikely the water company would let you build over or near one of their main adopted sewers.

So unless you think you or possibly a future buyer might want to build an extension near the line of the sewer there is no particular problem with this.

I am unable to upload the image of the map given.

The house in question is a semi-detached and the sewer line goes in the common shared access path with the neighbor to our back gardens. The sewer line does not go all the way to the end of the property and stops in the common access path.

Doozergirl

You already said that?

g_raju

Doozergirl wrote: »

You already said that?

Oops. Don't know what really happened there.

I checked the sewage map and there isn't any measurement of pipes given. It is available for the water pipes though not sewage pipes!

Doozergirl

The CON29DW should have a key and the pipes should be colour coded. It's a bit weird if it doesn't.

teneighty

If the drain only goes part way along the side of the house it seems unlikely it is an adopted public sewer. They are usually fairly obvious and generally feed other properties in a development either in front or behind the OP's house as they only tend to run through someones garden if that is the only available route.

martin1959

Any sewer that is shared is an adopted sewer, and has been for a few years.
It is only a sewer that serves only one property that does not come under the ownership of the company.
We had a sewer running across the back of our property, 2m from the rear wall, which served several bungalows.
When we wanted to build an extension, we were advised by the sewage company that the maximum length of pipe we could build over was 6m, which meant we could not extend the entire width of the bungalow as it is 8m wide. We settled on a 5.5m extension to one side, and the sewer pipe had to be boxed to keep the concrete foundations away from the pipes on either side.

Jemowe20

I have just purchased my new house but I am unsure if I will be able to build an extension on the rear of the property with a public sewer in our back garden. We have also found a inspection Hole under the tiled carpet in our kitchen. Which was extended in the 60’s. I have attached a plan off my local water company showing where the sewers are. Any advice welcome 

Slithery

Jemowe20 said:

Any advice welcome 

Please start your own thread otherwise all the other posters will get confused and give you answers to the original question instead of yours.