pennyturner
Well-Known Member
My water meadow has an old irrigation sluice from the river. My neighbour's river keeper has opened it, and all winter I've had half the river pouring onto my land. Had to evacuate just after Christmas, and ponies are still in temporary paddock.
The land is not a flood meadow. The sluice was designed to let some water in, to improve fertility, back in the 1600s before mechanised agriculture, when it was valuable land. Since then, a road has been built across the bottom, so if too much water gets in, it has nowhere to go and fills up like a bathtub.
I see this as diverting a watercourse, and I'm taking it up with the EA, but it's slow, and I doubt it will yield anything helpful.
I'm so angry I could spit, but short of turning my horses out on his lawn (has crossed my mind), what can I do?
The guy's an unreasonable arse and a QC, so no amount of reason has helped, and he responds to everything with legal threats.
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The land is not a flood meadow. The sluice was designed to let some water in, to improve fertility, back in the 1600s before mechanised agriculture, when it was valuable land. Since then, a road has been built across the bottom, so if too much water gets in, it has nowhere to go and fills up like a bathtub.
I see this as diverting a watercourse, and I'm taking it up with the EA, but it's slow, and I doubt it will yield anything helpful.
I'm so angry I could spit, but short of turning my horses out on his lawn (has crossed my mind), what can I do?
The guy's an unreasonable arse and a QC, so no amount of reason has helped, and he responds to everything with legal threats.
Cookies for any idea which raises a smile, and anyone with an idea which actually works (and is legal) can have my car.