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We are looking to renovate our semi-detached house.
We have a sewer easement where a sewer line connects to the sewer main on the front road. The easements had the sewer line that runs down the side of the house and connects to our neighbors house, half way down (refer to plans attached).
We want to extend the home out to the side but that will mean we will need to build over / move the easement further to the side (if possible).
Is it usually possible to extend a house over an easement like this?
Is it possible to lay new sewer pipes and move the easements further across on the plans for future?
We would not want to do this if it means any future prospective buyer would have concerns about buying as a result.

Interested in the thoughts of people have had similar experienced with their local council even though it may not be the same council as ours.

We will discuss more with Yarra Valley Waters & Stonnington council for specifics but interested in your thoughts…
I would say you are going to have considerable problems with this.

For your plans the only way you are likely to achieve this is move the sewer and its easement which is going to be very expensive.
Skydad
More info require, What Depth, Pipe Diameter, How old is the pipe, material?
Check with Dial BeforeYouDig your state water/sewer authorities, There may well be a number of engineering solutions,Ie Cantilever footings, Encasement,etc tho very costly.
Definitely costly. We potentially had to encase an easement that ran parallel to a boundary fence on our side, and the builder was predicting $30-40k. ( Our easement looks like it would have been longer than yours though)


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