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SJC-London
My house is approximately 5 years old and we are having a side extension built. Unfortunately, we have found numerous services in the location where the extension is to go - two water, three electricity and one data. All of these run pass the house and are not supplying my house.
Through contact with the original builder (not my current builder!) I have established that when the estate was built, there was a sales office partly under my house and the site canteen/management block behind it. Thus, it seems that one electricity/water/data combination went to the sales office and one electricity/water combination went to the canteen/management block. The final electricity seems to be historic and serving an old building on the site.
My issue is that all the electricity cables and water pipes are still live, despite no longer serving anything. My expectation is that these services should be terminated at the road and not left live under my property. Is my expectation reasonable?
Can anyone comment on whether there are any building regulations, standards, codes of conduct, liability etc. as to how a builder is supposed to deal with supplies to site buildings once the estate construction has finished? Or to buildings that they demolish?
Could the original builder be liable for not terminating these services correctly at the road? Or for not informing me of their existence?
Thanks for any advice!
Through contact with the original builder (not my current builder!) I have established that when the estate was built, there was a sales office partly under my house and the site canteen/management block behind it. Thus, it seems that one electricity/water/data combination went to the sales office and one electricity/water combination went to the canteen/management block. The final electricity seems to be historic and serving an old building on the site.
My issue is that all the electricity cables and water pipes are still live, despite no longer serving anything. My expectation is that these services should be terminated at the road and not left live under my property. Is my expectation reasonable?
Can anyone comment on whether there are any building regulations, standards, codes of conduct, liability etc. as to how a builder is supposed to deal with supplies to site buildings once the estate construction has finished? Or to buildings that they demolish?
Could the original builder be liable for not terminating these services correctly at the road? Or for not informing me of their existence?
Thanks for any advice!
