Neighbour (2 doors down ) has claimed root ingress has damaged his sewer pipes.

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, daltontrees said:

Sometimes they are not adopted until they get to a public area.

It changed in recent decades for England that any shared sewers serving two or more properties became the drainage companies' responsibility previously it was the property owners' joint responsibility.. I am not sure how it applies to multi occupancy buildings.

 

Edited September 4, 2023 by openspaceman

[Suffolk Dave]

7 hours ago, daltontrees said:

Sometimes they are not adopted until they get to a public area. The position of the blockage is not described, if it's in the neighbour's garden it might not be adopted.

 

[Suffolk Dave]

I agree that most shared drains are the responsibility of the  water company who removes it, we have a share drain AW who took full responsibility of it some years and we got a legal document  stating this at the time, so it differently worth asking

[Suffolk Dave]

AW  Anglian Water

[eggsarascal]

8 hours ago, openspaceman said:

It changed in recent decades for England that any shared sewers serving two or more properties became the drainage companies' responsibility previously it was the property owners' joint responsibility.. I am not sure how it applies to multi occupancy buildings.

 

Correct any shared drain in England is the responsibility of the sewerage undertaker, 2011 was the year of change.

[petercb]

Bear in mind home owner is still resposible for the length of drain from their property until it connects to the shared drain.

Flats are generally connected to a common drain then going to public sewer, owner of the building is responsible for drains with in property boundary.

 

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Edited September 4, 2023 by petercb
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[eggsarascal]

15 minutes ago, petercb said:

Bear in mind home owner is still resposible for the length of drain from their property until it connects to the shared drain.

Flats are generally connected to a common drain then going to public sewer, owner of the building is responsible for drains with in property boundary.

 

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Helping to explain responsibility for sewers and drains

 

That’s because it isn’t a shared drain until one of your neighbours drains joins your lateral. From that point on it is shared and the responsibility of your water authority.

[Mark J]

Your neighbour should make a claim on their house insurance. Site investigations will determine the reason for root ingress. 

[KarlSUK]

Hi,

 

Thank you for replies and advice.

 

I Should add that each house has pipes under their garden that link to the main sewer.  His complaint is regards the pipe under his garden believe.  He has had the lawn replaced with astroturf and thus has had work done in the garden that could have affected the pipe, it could also be argued that it would have been wise to inspect the pipe work while undertaking a redesign of the garden ?.

On checking there are bushes in behind a wall at the rear of his house and another tree two doors down from him.  The garden next to him has several bushes. He has no plants in the garden, although he did originally have bushes and a tree. The house between mine and his has only a very invasive ivy, extremely large and to be fair roots from this often popup on the other side of my garden so this does spread wildly.  

The drainage pipes are not believed to be very deep in these gardens, probably around 3 ft down if this would be relevant. 

 

Regards

 

Karl

 

 

 

[peds]

He sounds like a prick and you should probably just ignore him.