Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:49 am
Hi,
Been a long time reader of this site and I'm now ready to take the plunge and actually get on with what I've been reading about for ages.
I've got a bungalow which sits about 1m below road level and the front drive is about 20m long, when it rains water streams down the driveway eroding it, past my house and actually ends up contributing to the back garden flooding. I also own the neighbouring field which run alongside the road.
My project is actually a huge one because I need to construct some sort of French drain along the front of the house, and maybe a herringbone system on the back lawn, which then drains into some sort of field drainage system, but before I do that I can reduce the problems by combating surface water running off the road.
The road is a busy A road and there is no sewer system as it is a very rural location (apart from the bloody road) there is not really a drainage ditch along the roadside, if there ever was it looks like it hasn't been touched for about 20 years.
I've just got a couple of questions
1) Are the council/highways agency/water authority responsible for this run-off water? and if so which one?
2) If they don't take responsibility am I within my rights to construct a kerb along the roadside with a fractionally higher than normal dropped kerb across my driveway to prevent the flow of water... this may prevent the road draining though (although I'm not really bothered about that if they won't help me
Been a long time reader of this site and I'm now ready to take the plunge and actually get on with what I've been reading about for ages.
I've got a bungalow which sits about 1m below road level and the front drive is about 20m long, when it rains water streams down the driveway eroding it, past my house and actually ends up contributing to the back garden flooding. I also own the neighbouring field which run alongside the road.
My project is actually a huge one because I need to construct some sort of French drain along the front of the house, and maybe a herringbone system on the back lawn, which then drains into some sort of field drainage system, but before I do that I can reduce the problems by combating surface water running off the road.
The road is a busy A road and there is no sewer system as it is a very rural location (apart from the bloody road) there is not really a drainage ditch along the roadside, if there ever was it looks like it hasn't been touched for about 20 years.
I've just got a couple of questions
1) Are the council/highways agency/water authority responsible for this run-off water? and if so which one?
2) If they don't take responsibility am I within my rights to construct a kerb along the roadside with a fractionally higher than normal dropped kerb across my driveway to prevent the flow of water... this may prevent the road draining though (although I'm not really bothered about that if they won't help me