Hi All,
Just looking for some advice if anyone knows much about this. I'm a first time buyer, and we've had the searches back from the solicitor. It looks as though there is a sewage pipe/drain in the back garden very close to the house, under the area which we were planning to extend over. The map from the search shows the combined pipe in our garden which belongs to Thames water, which runs through next door's garden, but that part is not owned by Thames water. The pipe doesn't appear to connect to anything else- just runs through both our gardens.
Does anyone have any idea what this could mean? Does it mean we would have to move the pipe? and If so, any idea of costs? Thinking that we might be best off abandoning this, because no extension would be a show stopper for us.
Heres a picture of the offending pipe! The house with the red line in the back garden.
THanks
Just looking for some advice if anyone knows much about this. I'm a first time buyer, and we've had the searches back from the solicitor. It looks as though there is a sewage pipe/drain in the back garden very close to the house, under the area which we were planning to extend over. The map from the search shows the combined pipe in our garden which belongs to Thames water, which runs through next door's garden, but that part is not owned by Thames water. The pipe doesn't appear to connect to anything else- just runs through both our gardens.
Does anyone have any idea what this could mean? Does it mean we would have to move the pipe? and If so, any idea of costs? Thinking that we might be best off abandoning this, because no extension would be a show stopper for us.
Heres a picture of the offending pipe! The house with the red line in the back garden.
THanks