Peter Burgess
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It's interesting? Intellectual exercise?
Peter Burgess said:A cave is under your land, therefore it is not part of it. What is under your land is however usually your property. The cave is therefore no more land than your TV or your house or your cellar is, or the fracked oil in the strata is. Land is the interface between the air and the ground. Houses are built "on" land implying nothing more than a surface. I love my native tongue!
Les W said:It only needs a definition if it isn't included in CRoW as then there would need to be an arbitrary delimiting "line" where CRoW stopped applying.
Jenny P said:Cavers have had arguments in the past as to whether the owner of the mineral rights in such a case owned the walls of the cave, whereas the landowner owns the space which constitutes the "cave".
droid said:Irrelevent, Alex. You own the *pipes*, that's why you're responsible for their upkeep.
off topic I know but I understood that when the water companies were privatised, one feature included was the householder now owns all the pipe work from the water main in the street into the house and the sewer pipes all the way back to the main sewer, where ever that may be located in the street. So I (well my house insurance) got charged for a sewer problem out in the road. But Ofwat seems to think differently, see http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/households/supply-and-standards/supply-pipes/.Brains said:Only to a certain age, pre 1920(?) it is the water boards resposibility to the u-bend... saved me money in the past knowing that
Speaking as one who is contributing to it, Damian's life is a bit hectic at the moment with other more pressing demands. So I am afraid he is not able to show his usually efficient self and get the draft minutes out as fast as he normally does and no doubt would wish. I will therefore plead on Damian's behalf for patience.mudman said:Storm drains aside. Does anyone know when the minutes will be posted?
I actually finished them as a matter of absolute priority and since then have been waiting for them to pass through the usual stages of "vetting" prior to publication. Unfortunately I have no control over this, so they will be ready when they are ready. Sorry!Bob Mehew said:Speaking as one who is contributing to it, Damian's life is a bit hectic at the moment with other more pressing demands. So I am afraid he is not able to show his usually efficient self and get the draft minutes out as fast as he normally does and no doubt would wish. I will therefore plead on Damian's behalf for patience.