The(w)hole mystery is solved.
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We now know what the big hole that appeared in a Stoke Mandeville garden is...
AVDC have checked the plans and have confirmed it's a sewer.
In a report from Adam Heeley, Building Control and Access Manager at AVDC it was stated.
I have looked at the original records of when the properties were built and can see that Crest Homes proposed to run a shared surface water sewer across the front of these properties before running a lateral to connect into the main surface water sewer in the road.
At the time these properties were built this drainage in the front gardens would have been a private surface water sewer but as from 1st October 2011 all shared drainage which ultimately connects to a public sewer including surface water sewers became a public sewer and the responsibility of the water authority for that area, in this case Thames Water.
Thames Water have no record of these sewers on their mapping system as they were never mapped by them but this does not stop them being their responsibility.
The fact that water is rising in the chamber suggests that the surface water from the houses is having difficulty percolating through the soil and debris that has fallen into the chamber and is not running smoothly into the main sewer.
Kevin James who owns the house has spoken to Thames Water, who are sending out an engineer next Wednesday to investigate further.
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