Neighbour's Poor Drainage Impacting Footing

My neighbour has a section of yard where a ground engineer has determined has very poor surface level water drainage. As a result, the rear of my home is majorly impacted resulting in significant cracking in the masonry as the house shifts.

There's no point in getting the place re-footed until the neighbours surface water drainage problem is addressed.

What might be the best way to approach this issue? I reside OS and have never met the neighbours, but have a reliable PM managing the property.

Any advice most appreciated as this is quite new for me.

 

Is your property lower than your neighbour’s?
If so, excess rain water will always flow towards you.

 

The land on both sides is very flat. When it rains, the water sits in a zone where it is does not drain . There is also little sun that penetrates this area and the constant wet ground is impacting one side of the rear of my house.

Basically, there is my brick wall (house) and a damp area directly against it (neighbour). The water does not drain but soaks the earth and the footing of the home. The extension to the back of the house is only about 20 years old but the footings need replacement.

 

Lots of shade loving plants.

 

Can you have drainage added to your place to stop the water sitting against your brick work.

 

Watch out for white ants problem too. They like such environment.

 

A property owner has a legal obligation to retain storm water on their own property.

Water running off a lawn is storm water.

Chat to council. In which city is the house located?