Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Yes I do.
Flood water from my land ,neighbours complaining?
- Thread starter john432
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Yes I do.
spikeislander
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- Location
- bedfordshire
Obviously they are at fault and its in no way your responsibility but their message didn't seem to arrogant and I am sure they would rather sort the problem out. I would have a meeting state your displeasure at their approach so far but see if you can work together.
You can have a hissy fit if you can't agree and they are bell ends but I think if you have a chance to be neighbourly it will pay in the long term.
You can have a hissy fit if you can't agree and they are bell ends but I think if you have a chance to be neighbourly it will pay in the long term.
This, but get lots of photos, keep records and don't hesitate to get a lawyer if they start being difficult. You are in the right so don't give an inch.
Hi, continuing in a spin off topic. Myself and 4 other properties are getting flooded from neighbours higher fields. The historic field drainage system has been neglected and fallen into disrepair. There is a add on in their deeds which requires them to maintain drains.
4 or 5 properties at risk but the landowner refuses to anything. Any thoughts?
4 or 5 properties at risk but the landowner refuses to anything. Any thoughts?
Check you household insurance to see if you have legal expense cover and proceed from there.
- Location
- Northumberland
Can you take your own measures on your own land to prevent further flooding?
As-per this post:
Maybe best/easiest to sort a problem out within your own boundary rather than trying to persuade a neighbour to undertake works (at their own expense) which may or may not benefit yourselves.
Alternatively, if the neighbouring landowner is unwilling to undertake drainage works (which he/she may see as expensive and of little/no benefit to themselves), maybe you and the other houses at risk could club together and offer to pay for drainage works on the neighbours land, given that it will be your properties that stand to benefit most from such works.
The volumes of water are just too great to deal (880 cubic metres Storm Henke) .in term of my own drainage and this water is moving laterally across back gardens. We've tried to negotiate with the landowner to pay 25% of the costs. She's saying no to drain repairs and any other mitigation.
- Location
- sw scotland
Time to check the small print and issue a letter if it is stalemate and you think you are right
- Location
- Northumberland
Hmmm. I’d have thought your neighbour would be open to negotiation, especially IF there’s a chance they could be held liable/negligent for future flooding.
If it’s normal field drains next door, then although they obviously help to reduce the amount of surface water flowing off the field (because they keep the ground drier so it’s more porous when it rains) it’s unlikely that they will be that effective in a sudden flood event, when their capacity will be quickly overwhelmed.
matthew
Member
- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
We did have a few words with neighbour, whose field slopes to our house boundaries, and pointed out that the volume of top soil he was losing, (it topped the bank and water was coming over the top) would be better removed and taken back up to the top of the field.
Luckily, he obliged.
But on another part of the farm, what was a 'flood exceedance pathway' from our top land, has, despite four years of objections from us and the local flood officer, been built on. Needless to say, we will not be so obliging on that one.
Luckily, he obliged.
But on another part of the farm, what was a 'flood exceedance pathway' from our top land, has, despite four years of objections from us and the local flood officer, been built on. Needless to say, we will not be so obliging on that one.
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Looks to be of a flash flood event going on. I’ve not read the entire posts but if it was me I’d be digging a ditch around the perimeter and bank the spoil my side and divert the water before it crosses the fields. Going to be hard to pin blame on landowner fir flooding your property in the event of a legal claim given the year of rain I believe you’ve had.
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