Flooding and council liability question

[ClaphamMum]

Hey all,

Last week during the heavy rain our basement flooded. The reason for this is that the council recently raised the pavement by more than two inches on Southampton Way. This caused our airbricks to be a the level of the pavement instead of above it, meaning that any surface water that collects now flows directly into our basement.

Can anyone help suggest how we might go about getting the council to remedy this situation, a situation we wouldnt be in if it wasnt for the work they did on teh pavement.

Thanks!

[James Barber]

Hi ClaphamMum,

You should talk to your insurers about this. They will know if they can sue the council to recover their costs.

IF you're not insured then if the damages you've injured are ?10,000 or less then your could sue the council via the Small Claims Court process.

[ClaphamMum]

Thanks!

[Lowlander]

Ditto contact your insurers and push for them to do so.

Many moons ago a similar thing happened although we had no basement to flood.

The council (one of the English local ones, can't remember which) came back and re-did the pavement.