Hi, I bought a house near the top of a hill in a suburban part of Scotland to avoid being on the flood plain. Unfortunately several times a year I get streams of water washing my lawn away. I'm attempting to put in a storm water drain to connect up to the existing system, wherever that may be.
I dug out to find where the rainwater downpipe on the coresponding side of the house went to. It turns out that it connects into the piped sewage system, so I guess it's a probable no-no to connect there. I phoned the council hoping to get a look at some plans. The planning department put me onto building control. I was told that they don't do searches for plans in their archive and that there was no facility for me to do a search myself. Maybe I'm being fobbed off. Is this standard practice for Scottish Councils?
I checked with the mortgage company and they're going to let me look at the documents they've got but I don't think these will include details of the drains.
Any suggestions?