Presumably only as the result of incompetant surveyors, working both on behalf of buyers and the Building Societies, who in turn presumably, are covered by equally incompetent professional indemnity insurers.
michael adams
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But part of the buying process will involve, as standard, examination of flood risk data from the EA and water authorities. So very much caveat emptor - the buyer will certainly be made aware by their solicitor of such a risk and a dry winter will do nothing to cover it up.
On 03/12/2014 10:39, "Nightjar
"Tim Watts" wrote
Assuming all parties do their job properly. A friend of mine bought a house and only when he applied for persmission to build an extension did he find there was a sewer running under the area he wanted to develop. None of this showed up in the searches and surveys. The net result was he couldn't extend and had to move.
John.
That could get complicated, because drawing loads of water could cause an empty gap somewhere and your whole street collapses.
Absurd. If a mining company wants to mine, they should either own the land they are digging under, or pay a large sum of money (some kind of percentage of what they find?) to the land owner.
I thought so called mineral rights have not belonged to the land owner for a very long time?
So if a farmer finds something valuable under his land, he can't have it? Fuck's sake. Who does get it then?
How did the sewer show up at the planning stage, but was missed by the searches (which should have listed it)?
Large sewers (which I assume this was, and not just a little 4-6" one that serves a few houses) should be on someone's plan?
"Tim Watts" wrote
I assmue someone didn't do their job properly, which is how my original posting began.
Agreed.
John.
We're not in America. You don't own any coal oil or gas under your house. Belongs to the government to sell as they see fit.
Rainwater is yours until it crosses the boundary of the property. Then it belongs to the utility company. All other water (surface or ground) you have to get permission to obstruct or abstract it. And buy a licence which stipulates exactly how much you can remove.
Sometimes I think we haven't moved on since King Henry.
What they did steal was the water supply infrastructure, reservoirs etc. (Paid for by local councils) and sold to private water companies.
The government/queen.
I've seen a house with a stream running through it. Are you seriously suggesting he couldn't use that water?
Oops, I meant the stream was in the garden :-)
On 03/12/2014 15:57, harryagain wrote: ..
Not if you are abstracting less than 20 cubic metres per day, which few domestic users are likely to do.
1 cubic metres = 4,399.38315 Imperial gallons, so I guess 20 cubic metres is an awful lot of wet stuff, and far more than any domestic user could use even if he/she left all their taps running continuously.
John.
Or rather 20m^3 is.
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