build over agreement

Buying house with Build Over Agreement I’m in the process of buying a house in the South East of England and the seller has shared a Build Over Agreement they have with the water company. It shows that there is a sewer running underneath the extension built by the seller in 2019. The...

Hi all, I've applied to build over a 225mm drain with piling and bridging over the drain, and I've just had the application rejected. The technician acknowledged that what we want to do is allowed according to building regs, but rejected it anyway stating the reasons: the 225mm drain serves a...

Hi all - appreciate any thoughts on this please: Attached is the current layout of my property. The Orange line is where the back of my house was originally built to. The previous owner added the conservatory, utility and bathroom to the back (over 15 years ago). The blue square is where...

Hi all, I am in talks with the water authority re the position of a public sewer manhole at the rear of a proposed single story extension. As it stands, the extension is planned to be built right up to the chamber cover. The water authority have agreed that we can make adaptations to this...

Hi all, Thank you for reading this. I have applied for a build over agreement with Welsh Water and have just had a sewer trace performed. We propose to build near, but not over the public sewer at the rear of the property. As you can see from the attached plan that I've drawn post sewer trace...

We are close to exchange on a house constructed in the 1930s and the searches indicated that a 225mm foul sewer is within the property boundary running longitudinally underneath the house. There is another sewer at the end of the garden. Search also revealed a water main (in blue, size unknown)...

Hi all, I was hoping for some advice before I cry into a pillow later on! I want to caveat the whole story by saying both my wife and I are not at all knowledgeable about plans, building etc, although over the last couple of weeks I have become more au-fait. We did a single storey extension...

hi all, I need some advice on what options I have here. attaching picture for clarity. long story short, I have 2 square manholes in my rear garden. * one is around 1.4m from the rear wall (M1), the second one is around 4.15m from the rear wall (M2), as per image. * M1 collects my...

Morning Everyone, So I have a dilemma. The house I bought has an extension on the left-hand side of it, it then has a conservatory next to that, my plan is whilst I'm updating the house I want to add a pitched roof with the intention of adding a couple of extra dormers with pitched tiled roofs...

Hello everyone, We have a build over agreement from our water utilities supplier as we're building near a large sewer pipe that runs between our house and neighbour. Our neighbour is difficult and asking to see the agreement. I don't see why as it's between us and the utility provider. Any...

Hi - I am applying for a build over agreement with Thames Water to build over a sewer. They require "Existing" and "Proposed": a) Cross-sectional foundation plan b) Ground floor plans How do people usually determine the existing foundation plan? Do you actually dig down until you see the...

Hi, We recently had our planning permission granted for a single storey rear extension. Our extension will go out 3m (where the existing manhole current is) but our detached garage will be knocked down and converted to an “L shape” extension (where we propose to move the manhole next to). We...

Hi, I would very much appreciate you input on my project. Project: I am building a side extension which incorporates a new WC. My build will go over existing sewer pipes and manholes. Status: I have planning council permission and now I wish to obtain Thames Water Build Over permission...

I have a 100mm drain pipe which will go through my foundations at a depth of 1m. The manhole is outside the footings of the extension so it only the protection of this clay drain I need to be concerned about. The foundations are very deep, up to 2.4 meters. I am thinking of something like...