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<blockquote data-quote="bracken basher" data-source="post: 6263328" data-attributes="member: 565"><p>I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago although my neighbors were the only ones drawing from a supply situated on our land, </p><p>They decided to sell up and even though we asked them to they refused to make any mention in the sale particulars that they did not own the spring where the water was drawn from.</p><p> My father had made a verbal agreement with their parent(his cousin) 35 years previous that they could draw water from the spring at their own risk on the understanding that it was left uncovered as this was the only supply of water that our sheep had access to on that parcel of land during a dry summer,</p><p>When we heard that the farm had been sold we contacted a solicitor. he advised us that because they had received an unrestricted supply for over 20 years and no agreement on paper we could not stop them. If they had been paying an yearly fee, even £1 per year we could have.The only thing that we could do was inform the Estate Agent and the purchaser that the water was not fit for human consumption. The new owners have bored a new well.</p><p>Lesson learnt is get everything down on paper signed by both parties specially if dealing with neighbors that are family as one day probably your neighbor won't be related to you or your descendants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bracken basher, post: 6263328, member: 565"] I was in a similar situation a couple of years ago although my neighbors were the only ones drawing from a supply situated on our land, They decided to sell up and even though we asked them to they refused to make any mention in the sale particulars that they did not own the spring where the water was drawn from. My father had made a verbal agreement with their parent(his cousin) 35 years previous that they could draw water from the spring at their own risk on the understanding that it was left uncovered as this was the only supply of water that our sheep had access to on that parcel of land during a dry summer, When we heard that the farm had been sold we contacted a solicitor. he advised us that because they had received an unrestricted supply for over 20 years and no agreement on paper we could not stop them. If they had been paying an yearly fee, even £1 per year we could have.The only thing that we could do was inform the Estate Agent and the purchaser that the water was not fit for human consumption. The new owners have bored a new well. Lesson learnt is get everything down on paper signed by both parties specially if dealing with neighbors that are family as one day probably your neighbor won't be related to you or your descendants. [/QUOTE]
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