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Hi Everyone I'm after some advice, here is the story, we own our home, it a end terrace on a block of 20, the whole terrace starts at road level at one end and goes down to about 2 foot below road level at my end, directly out side the front door is a public foot path then a small wall then road. our house it set up off the foot path by about 6 inches.
at the very edge of the foot path before the wall is a gully that runs all the way along the terrace,at a number of points along the gully there is drain and one final drain rite out side our house.
the problem we have been having for the last 6 years is in very heavy rain the drain out side out house can't cope, the whole path from out side our house floods up to the hight of our door step 6 inches deep, this prevents us leaving our house, it tends to take about an hour or two to drain down, how we have not been flooded so far is amazing, its been just a few mm below the door before but normally very heavy rain showers are short and we get lucky.
since moving here we have send a number of letters, companies and photos of the problem to the local council and they just send a drain cleaning lorry and we get the same response from the met that they believe the pipe has collapsed in the road causing the problem, then nothing gets done.
what i trying to find out is where do i stand legally? I'm fed up of getting nowhere with the council, i don't want to be flooded and want them to sort it out
at the very edge of the foot path before the wall is a gully that runs all the way along the terrace,at a number of points along the gully there is drain and one final drain rite out side our house.
the problem we have been having for the last 6 years is in very heavy rain the drain out side out house can't cope, the whole path from out side our house floods up to the hight of our door step 6 inches deep, this prevents us leaving our house, it tends to take about an hour or two to drain down, how we have not been flooded so far is amazing, its been just a few mm below the door before but normally very heavy rain showers are short and we get lucky.
since moving here we have send a number of letters, companies and photos of the problem to the local council and they just send a drain cleaning lorry and we get the same response from the met that they believe the pipe has collapsed in the road causing the problem, then nothing gets done.
what i trying to find out is where do i stand legally? I'm fed up of getting nowhere with the council, i don't want to be flooded and want them to sort it out
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