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Totally confused. Our drain leaves our house, crosses our sideway, runs into a manhole just on the other side of the fence, along a few feet parallel with the boundary, and then back onto our property. A drain survey has confirmed the neighbours on that side do not connect to the drains so it only serves us. It then runs across the width of our garden (where we would like to build an extension) and into the neighbors on the other side for about 4 metres where it joins the neighbour's drain and then connects to the sewer. The architect says private and no build over needed, building control will only review after we have started to dig foundations, I am reading the buildover docs and they seem to say the drain is no longer private once it crosses the boundary. I don't want to start digging if there could be issues (the drain is 2.8m deep, so could potentially be a lot more work and money). Any advice would be great. Thanks