Be sure to tell the council that a lion can't live in a flooded house as the water makes his mane all limp and soggy .
Nicky

Hey Bix, if the havent start to build yet, take photos and kick up a stink they maybe asked to make amendments to their plans to add extra drainage. I am trying hard to recall your layout. Is it the house to the left as you are looking from the road. All I can remember is the bit at the back where you moved the fence and had the storm drain in the garden is this right.

Jo

As you look from the road the house on the left is the lower side.
The vacant plot is on the higher right side Jo.

There was no problem during the last wet but now the slab is down there's nowhere for the water to soak away.
Probably be okay when the house is built as the roof will have gutters and downpipes leading to that back storm drain.
So I think it's just a matter of getting something temporary done.

Doh I meant the right.

Jo

Typical ladeeeeeee, not knowing right from left

Here's that stormdrain - looks a bit different now we've landscaped it.

Here's the problem.
We've had no rain at all in terms of what we will get so it's gonna get worse.

Derek, I'm sure you can get something done, you can't leave it like that. As the other posts suggest, have a word with the council. tut, cats and water just don't mix do they

Yeah, will get on it in the new year when they're back to work.

Jees whinging bloody pommies a real Aussie would have chucked a few rocks in there and called it a water feature

phone the council and they will help you...the owners of the land will be responsible for any water run off from their land to yours....I contact the council when the land next door to us needs the grass cutting and they give you out the details no worries

In our previous house (on a slope) we had our downhill neighbours complaining that the run-off from our property had flooded their garage,

I pointed out that their storm drain was blocked with leaves. They were not amused.

We had made absolutely no changes to our property, and as far as I could see, everything was designed for the run-off to go into their storm drain. It was blocked with leaves, and it was on their property.

I know I'm still a sort of newbie in Oz, but ffs, do I have to point out the bleeding obvious to them? If your storm drain is blocked, you will get flooded in a storm. We didn't have a storm drain on our property, so obviously the developers always intended for the run-off from ours to into the neighbours storm drain.

Top tip Bix!! If you have a storm drain, get it cleaned out!

JTL

The picture in post 20 was taken today and is my storm drain.

Have you ever seen such a work of art ?

Rather than just have the usual gulley at the bottom of the garden we landscaped it.

Errrm yeah its Beautiful. So why does it not work at getting water away? (The whole point of a storm drain). Maybe a pump might be in order? Thats what we need here in our house (we are on flat terrain now).

I've been banging on at Mrs JTL to get our drainage sorted, cos I know for a fact if we get a proper storm our house will be flooded.

So shes bought some old wine barrells to grow plants in...

Which will be nice to look at, as our computers and television float round the house.

JTL

It does work.

All the properties have underground drainage pipes that takes the water from the rooves into the storm drain.

It would appear there are no drains yet on the plot so all the water is just running off the slab the length of the plot and running through the fence down into our place.

This is what you call a flood, we had 5 feet of water in our house during the Bewdley floods of 2000. Yes Bixie, completely over my head