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Selling House: Surface water drainage question

Mindfulness · 2014-05-01 13:13:40

My solicitor has come back to me with a query regarding the survey that was done on our house. Apparently there is no surface water drainage. We have been asked if there is a soakway or if it drains into a private watercourse. As far as I'm aware we have neither of these in place and surface water just dries up or is…

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01-05-2014 2:13pm

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Mindfulness

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My solicitor has come back to me with a query regarding the survey that was done on our house. Apparently there is no surface water drainage. We have been asked if there is a soakway or if it drains into a private watercourse.

As far as I'm aware we have neither of these in place and surface water just dries up or is soaked up by the lawn. So I have two questions myself:

1. Does anyone know if this would present a significant problem for a buyer?

2. What is the impact of not having such systems in place?

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