Last-Minute Drainage Demands: Is Infrastructure Overreaching on Jersey House Sales?
Buyers and sellers are being hit with eleventh-hour instructions to separate surface water from foul sewers, sometimes a day or two before their contract is due to pass before the Royal Court. With no clear right of appeal, and a legal grandfather clause that appears to protect many of the very properties being targeted, is the Infrastructure department using its position in the conveyancing chain to enforce a policy the law itself doesn't require?











