Neighbours again

[Janovich]

I think i'd be inclined to knock on their door when you're passing and introduce yourself (if indeed they don't know you are the land owner). Have a quick natter with them and ask them if they realise that their gutter down pipe is going to be flowing out onto your land!! Let them answer the question and see what they intend to do about it as the water onto your land isn't needed or warranted.

This can be a nice friendly chat if THEY choose to make it so (perhaps you have a suggestion or two for the down pipe and it's relocation?),....or, if they get all arsey about it.....as you've taken the time and courtesy to knock on their door and bring to their attention the little 'faux pax' in this shed erection, inform them it will need to be relocated onto THEIR land and not yours.

If things get silly from their side,....crack on and deal with the matter in whatever way you need to!!

 

[jellybean]

Is the land that the shed is on higher than your land? I understood that any water from higher land has the right to be passed on to the lower ground and is then the concern of the owner of that lower land. Makes sense to me as you cannot make water run uphill. Worst case is you need to pipe it away somewhere.

 

[Fleeced]

That's either ignorance or arrogance. It's easy enough to redirect into a water butt. I'd approach them pleasantly asking them to redirect it and If after a nice chat they didn't see the light and correct it I would collect their water in a receptacle and pipe it back into their garden.

 

[ajcc]

Not worth worrying about.

 

[Fleeced]

Not worth worrying about.

Depends, it might be a large barn next. Or ten years down the line they have earned some legal right. At the very least it's bad manners.

 

[7610 super q]

Depends, it might be a large barn next. Or ten years down the line they have earned some legal right. At the very least it's bad manners.

Nail on the head. If he'd cut the pipe short, and let it drain on his side, fine. It would probably seep through the bank anyway, but hey-ho.
Putting the pipe through the bank onto neighbours property smacks of ' f**k you '.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Give another 6 months after the ivy has taken over his shed and come Autumn ,all the leaves have droped and blocked his gutter ,hell have realized he built it in the wrong place

 

[Suffolk Serf]

If that's all that you have to worry about you are a very lucky man!

 

[Dry Rot]

Is the land that the shed is on higher than your land? I understood that any water from higher land has the right to be passed on to the lower ground and is then the concern of the owner of that lower land. Makes sense to me as you cannot make water run uphill. Worst case is you need to pipe it away somewhere.

I'm not so sure about that. It isn't surface water running down the land nor percolating through the soil but in a defined channel and I think the law is different. If a channel (e.g. ditch) had been agreed upon or been there for yonks, I'd agree that the OP would have to accept the water.

Of course, the OP can (within reason and the law) do what he wants on his own land. Being a miserable old cove, I'd be inclined to tie a bag over the end of the pipe, then when it rains, the water will back up and flood over the gutter. If he questions it, just say the soil on your side is not suiable as a soakaway and he'd do better routing it in the opposite direction!

 

[CollCrofter]

Not worth worrying about.

I understand what you're saying but for me it's the principal of the situation

You give an inch and they take a mile.. What if every neighbour to the farm decided to do it since it was OK for one of them..

 

[Northeastfarmer]

It might not be much but that would infuriate me...it's just a total p!ss take...too many neighbours just do what they want and sh!t on you....where's the respect...do to others as you would like done to yourself

 

[Lincs Lass]

One pipe now ,whats his next trick ,digging a grip through his yard to let the surface water drain away

 

[Forever Fendt]

The water collected by the shed roof would probably find its way onto your land anyway

 

[Forever Fendt]

The water collected by the shed roof would probably find its way onto your land anyway

just had a think about it tell the twit to move it

 

[Princess Pooper]

Got an empty, used 200l barrel to offer them as a water butt so they can redirect the downspout and use the water?

 

[Alicecow]

Have a quiet word, as above. If that doesn't work then after about 6 months, grasp the end of the pipe, give it a few twists to loosen it from its anchorings and let the water drain down onto the bottom corner of the shed. Might take him a while to notice

 

[Jon.S]

Burn his house down.

Then point out if he had redirected it into a water butt then he would have had something to put the fire out with.

 

[Goweresque]

Difficult one. It looks like the garden is considerably higher than your field, so even if they remove the pipe from sticking out the bank, the water is going to end up in your field regardless. Then there's the size of the shed, how big is it? If its more than 15 m2 in footprint then building regs may apply, if its over 30m2 then they definitely should have applied for them, part of which would be how they proposed disposing of rainwater.

https://www.planningportal.co.uk/info/200130/common_projects/43/outbuildings/2

 

[Fleeced]

Also if it's a stable it needs pp.

 

[CollCrofter]

It might not be much but that would infuriate me...it's just a total p!ss take...too many neighbours just do what they want and sh!t on you....where's the respect...do to others as you would like done to yourself

Absolutely. I wouldn't just stick a drain onto someone else's land without talking to them about it or coming to some sort of compromise or asking permission first. ''Do unto others as you would like done to yourself'' Give respect, take respect.

Communication and respect seems to be few and far between unless it's between us farmers!