water drain under neighbours property

.Ger

Hi any advice would be great

I bought an acre of land a few years ago and there was hay shed at the end of the property the hay shed has a drain for the rain water and it goes under the property next to mine and spills out into a lane that Leeds to bog land
The guy that owns the property that the pipe goes through sold me this now I only noticed this a few months ago when my garden flooded due to blocked drain,

I noticed he is planning to dig up the area where the pipe is as its the nearer to the road
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What should I do ??

rayjdav

Unless you bought the parcel of land with legal attachments for the placing of the drain, imo the cheapest solution would be to dig your own surface water soakpit. This is on the assumption solely that you intend to disperse of surface water only, any other drainage ie effluent, would require planning permission.
By the time you pay solicitors fees and the time taken to resolve who owns what etc, you would have a soakpit built in a day and done for the cost of a load of 2" clean chip and a digger.

slavetothegrind

talk to him first then proceed from there!

He obviously knows it's there so chances are he has no problem!

It's all in the approach;)