Flooded garden

[local patios and driveway]

Need your advice guys, new house, garden is like a rice field, I've never seen so much water on the surface. Clay under a foot of top soil. Water is pooling on the left side of garden and my garden is a little lower than both neighbours. I dug a soak away to see what's under there and that filled with water, and in the last two
Days it's been dry but the water level is gaining height. The hole is almost full.

I'm thinking one of the neighbours has a water leak, no one is on a meter here so may not even know, if that is the case how do I find out what is really happening and also if there is cost involved And it is next doors fault are they responsible for having it repaired?

Thanks for any advice dan

:p

[Bob_A]

When you say new house do you mean a new build or an existing house that someone has moved into?
Reason I ask is I thought it was mandatory for all new houses to have a meter.

If it is a water leak I suppose it's up to the water board to repair at their cost up to the stop cock in the street and the house owner to pay beyond that pipe?

[local patios and driveway]

Thanks bob. Its new to me. I've asked neighbours if I can listen to their water see if I can hear anything.. Fingers crossed that I can. Can't be water table as car park at rear is two foot lower than my garden