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New build house - garden waterlogging
"Sarah P" munged @ nospam.net wrote in message
... Hi all, Apologies for the X-post but the d.i.y guys always seem to know what's going on with regard to 'building' regs but the real domain of the question is my 'garden'. Basically, I've bought a new house up in Scotland and the garden is a bit of a nightmare. The slightest amount of rain results in pools of standing water and the newly laid turf is apparently about to start rotting. Now a local landscaper has said that the problem can probably be rectified but I don't think it should be up to me to pay for this. The landscaper also mentioned that standing water should be the developer's consideration. How do you think I should approach this - should the developer be sorting out the drainage or am I stuck with footing the bill for this myself ? Thank for any guidance, Keith Keith you may have a problem here even bigger than you think and if it is the case you need to take it up with the Planning Department of your local Council. If you have a Parish Council take it up with them too, but in both cases IN WRITING. Your house may be built on a flood plain. Your house may be built in an area where there are just too many houses, car parks, roads, paved areas etc to take away the rain water which 'did' soak into the ground, but now has to go into inadequate sewers. It is this latter situation which has caused the pair of houses opposite me to flood to above skirting board level, 4 times in the 16 years I have been here. This always happened after torrential rain and the sewers could not take any more. The village is downhill and once the drains were full, the sewer backed up, water came OUT of the manhole in the road and into the gardens, thence into the houses via the air bricks. The Council came round after the water had gone. The Water Board came round after the water had gone. Both said either "Nothing can be done" OR each said "It was the other's responsibility". Both also said "We don't know why it happens" The last time it happened I videoed it. Called the Water people in, sat them on the settee and pointed out the problem. Called the Council people in and pointed out the problem. Result? The road has been re-aligned to take the water away and DOWN INTO THE VILLAGE!!!! thereby adding to that problem, and a promise of a new main sewer through the Village. IF this is your problem, get yourself onto the Council and shout, and as it is a new house, I fear that unless new drains 'have' been laid, not just around the houses, but to increase the capacity 'down stream' so to speak, it will be the house to flood next if they build any more houses or lay more roads. Our houses are about 100 years old and we have 2 neighbours who have lived here for a very long time. One is about 90, maybe a bit younger, who was born in the house and says that this flooding problem has 'only recently started'. "Recently", like since a large field/orchard 'up' the road had a development of Retired People's Homes built on it and the entire area paved, but for a few little borders and a bit of lawn. The large houses 'up' the road, now Seaside Boarding Houses, have turned their gardens into car parks with tarmac and concrete. All of this water has to go somewhere, like across the road into people's houses ;-{ ? "I think not" If this is your case, watch EVERY planning permission and oppose it if 'virgin soil' is being built on. I do and have had planning applications refused. In one case, the Council wanted to sell a piece of land with planning permission to build, so applied for permission themselves. I opposed it and it is now an open area, soon to be taken up by a Wildlife Group. Hope this is of help if it is the problem. If so I can give a lot more help as to how to word the letter of opposition, who to copy it to and what sting to add in the tail. Mike |
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