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Hi I have been considering an extension for a while now and have just been reading about the private into public sewer changes. This has led me to a mini conundrum. I appreciate the water company are the best people to ask but any ideas would be appreciated.
Basically my planned extension will be built almost up to a boundary and will cross a sewer and be on top of a manhole cover. This sewer and manhole only service my property and so are private. If I'm not mistaken though when my pipe crosses my boundary towards a manhole on my neighbours drive it becomes a public sewer. Because I'd be building so close to the boundary there would be no room to move the manhole. Equally as the pipe becomes public when it crosses the boundary the extension would be within three metres of a public sewer and so the water company would need to be involved. My question is can they object to me building over my private sewer pipe and over my private manhole. The water company's website says that they will not allow internal manholes, however can I presume as mine is private I can do what I want.
I appreciate building over a manhole is questionable anyway but my soil pipe is a straight 5metre run to this neighbours manhole (with my current one in the middle of this run), so I'm presuming if all else fails I could access my pipe from their manhole. Unfortunately to reroot the sewer would be a serious cost.
Is this viable or can the water company stop me?
Basically my planned extension will be built almost up to a boundary and will cross a sewer and be on top of a manhole cover. This sewer and manhole only service my property and so are private. If I'm not mistaken though when my pipe crosses my boundary towards a manhole on my neighbours drive it becomes a public sewer. Because I'd be building so close to the boundary there would be no room to move the manhole. Equally as the pipe becomes public when it crosses the boundary the extension would be within three metres of a public sewer and so the water company would need to be involved. My question is can they object to me building over my private sewer pipe and over my private manhole. The water company's website says that they will not allow internal manholes, however can I presume as mine is private I can do what I want.
I appreciate building over a manhole is questionable anyway but my soil pipe is a straight 5metre run to this neighbours manhole (with my current one in the middle of this run), so I'm presuming if all else fails I could access my pipe from their manhole. Unfortunately to reroot the sewer would be a serious cost.
Is this viable or can the water company stop me?