Hi guys,

I'm new to this so apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this. My mum was building a house, but died suddenly leaving me (a drum teacher!) in charge and out of my depth with finishing it! Everything has gone reasonably ok, except for the surface water drainage.

The house is in Haywards Heath and southern water have denied sewerage access for the surface water, and since we don't have the space in the garden allowed for a soakaway, the only option we have been given is to dig 30 metres along to a busy B road which would have to be probably be closed off for a day, so we can tap in to the closest surface drainage.

I was just wandering first off how much something like this would cost?? I imagine tens of thousands of pounds! Does anyone know of any other potential alternatives, above board preferably!

Its very frustrating considering we have  foul sewer access in our garden but have to potentially pay an insane amount of money to divert the rain water from such a small house across so far!

Anyway! If anyone is knowledgeable with this sort of thing I would be very grateful to hear from you!

Many thanks

James

Great thanks for the help. Some one talked to me about a rainwater harvester today funnily enough, Do you have any idea how much that would cost to install?

Great, thanks very much for your replies, very helpful :]