Recent content by mayflowers

Just to update you, after speaking with the solicitor who did our conveyancing for the purchase a while back, so knows the layouts and situation with this land. I contacted the buyer of our neighbours land (another local farmer) to speak to him about it. I had agreed with my neighbour that i...

No he did it while we were away! He still hasn't filled in the trench he dug into the entrance to our field from 9 mths ago, which means we can't get a tractor in to mow it! He also paid a drainage company to come out and try jetting it without telling us, but they can't rectify it as they need...

He has just put his treatment plant in and had it signed off by regs. Ours was put in and signed off by regs in 2014 so all legal. The stream he discharges into for that, is over the other side of his property, not in reach for us to go anywhere near.

We don't share a soakaway- the treatment plant he's just put in is way over the other side no where near us, however, the ditch he had to dig to get the pipes there to discharge from the farm building he's renovating were but a mere 10 metres from his pond, so he could have just solved the...

His drains are not ours. They don't serve us at all, they just cut across our field as closed drains, to take the water away somewhere else under the road- most likely to the other famers fields below that have historically had drainage ditches, but are now all filled in, so even if there was no...

Actually, the way our Georgian property was built 200 yrs ago, is that even though we are on a downhill slope to a degree, the whole property is bordered on the back by a wooded high mound, which was probably form the excavations for this house, so any amount of water can run down hill and NEVER...

Can you help me with appropriate legislation to show neighbour pls to prove to him his position is wrong? We have an ongoing issue and he insists its our responsibility- not his, so continues to flood our land. We don't want to go legal as we want to stay on good terms-he's pig headed, but if i...