Blocked Drains & Drain Unblocking In Castle Donington

In Castle Donington the public sewers belong to Severn Trent Water. If the blockage is in a pipe you share with a neighbour, or beyond your boundary, it's normally the water company's to clear — call Severn Trent on 0800 783 4444. If it's in a drain that serves only your property, it's yours, and that's where we come in. Our engineer finds the blockage first and tells you whose it is before any work starts.

Water pooling around a road gully outside? Road drains are Leicestershire County Council's responsibility — report it to the council. We clear private gullies, channels and manholes anywhere in Castle Donington, Hemington, Lockington, Kegworth and the rest of DE74.

Castle Donington has grown quickly. According to the developer behind the Park Lane scheme, its first phase has delivered about 895 new homes alongside Foxbridge Primary School and a 2.4km relief road, and a planning application for a further 1,076 homes has been submitted. A growing share of the town's homes are new-builds, with plastic drains that rarely crack. When they block, the usual culprits are wipes, kitchen fat, and mortar or grout that can find its way into pipes during building work and later fit-outs.

New estates raise their own question about who owns what. Shared sewers on a development are normally built by the developer under a section 104 agreement for eventual adoption by the water company, and until that happens they are not yet public sewers. If a shared pipe on a recently built street blocks, it's worth asking the developer or your management company whether the sewers have been adopted, as that decides who is responsible for clearing them.

In the older streets the picture is simpler. North West Leicestershire District Council's drainage advice reminds owners that they are responsible for clearing and repairing their own drains, gutters and rainwater pipes, and that most problems are a one-off blockage that won't come back once cleared. We clear sinks, toilets and outside drains with rods or a jetter, then run water through to prove the pipe is flowing. Drain unblocking starts from £120 + VAT.