Ownership of land under you

[Tim Watts]

4 and 10 years depending:

[Tim Watts]

No meter :)

Yet...

They did not even force one on me when they dug up the pavement to replace a faulty stopcock (that itself must have been all of 10-12 years old).

[RJH]

And the rest. I worked for a surveying practice in Doncaster that specialised in minerals extraction and their effect on property. Apparently the area is riddled with underground mines. Some recorded, some not.

[Roger Chapman]

ISTR that a casual acquaintance once told me that his house somewhere in rural Cheshire had a stream in a 3 foot wide culvert running underneath it.

[Roger Chapman]

Nor me but the bastards stuck in a meter box with an uninsulated tap so close to the surface that it is bound to freeze during an average winter. During a harsh winter a few years back the water main froze at the stop c*ck anyway and now the tap is only a few inches below ground level rather than 1 cubit down. They made a pig's ear of repairing my pavement as well.

And in my case it wasn't even a faulty tap but a leak in the supply pipe the company side of the tap.

[Martin Brown]

Already gone out of business by the time we found the fault. Basically it wasn't worth the effort of chasing for it from a hundred miles away.

[Tim Lamb]

I don't think they have *right of access* though. For surface work, they would need the consent of the landowner or go through compulsory purchase. Doesn't help for mining or fracking etc.

[Martin Brown]

Most of Lancashire is still subject to pretty spectacular mining subsidence from the now long abandoned flooded mine workings. I expect it is the same in the Nottingham coal fields too.

[RobertL]

Personally, I see nothing wrong with it at all.

Robert

[John]

"Rod Speed" wrote

Yes there was one in "Escape to the Country" or similar programme. I think it was a former water mill.

John.

[John]

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote

Sorry I quoted the 20 cu metre conversion - See:

as that was the maximum that some claimed could freely be extracted without licence. Still a lot of water.

John.

[Uncle Peter]

Did he have permission to use the stream in this way?

I dread to think what would happen if the exit hole became blocked :-) I guess a nasty neighbour could do that form the outside while they're asleep or on holiday.

[Uncle Peter]

I bet you would if it was gold and it was under your house.

[harryagain]

Same in South Wales. Houses fall into big holes from time to time.

[harryagain]

Exactly so. Nor can he pollute it or even make a dam without a licence.

[harryagain]

I was one of them. I used to get regular letters asking about my water supply. I just used to bin them, as did all my neighbours. There are no "rights" appended to deeds.

You are supposed to pay for the privelege.

[John]

"harryagain" wrote

And in Yorkshire. As a kid I remember part of the Roman Catholic vicarage (?) falling into a collapsed pit shaft in Normanton, West Yorkshire. The road alongside it went too!

John.

[Uncle Peter]

I'd agree with not polluting it, that's putting something into someone else's land. But using a tiny bit for drinking water shouldn't be a problem, or filling a swimming pool with it. While the water is on his land, it should belong to him.

[Uncle Peter]

But for example someone could dig a bloody great hole in my neighbour's garden with her permission, then tunnel under my house without my consent to mine?

[Nightjar]

...

It does, or at least, up to 20 cubic metres a day does: