Our back garden backs onto a small hill with some trees. This area was under some discussion for a couple of years over who was to maintain it, whether it was the Residents Association or the housebuilder. Turns out its the housebuilders responsibility still however their idea of maintaining is to not really do anything.
So we now have quite a bit of debris building up behind our fence which has meant that rain water instead of draining into the ground it streams over the leaf build-up and is coming into our back garden and ruining our border and grass. We are going to remove all the debris at the weekend (since no-one else will) but does anyone have any other advice on what we can do to elevate the situation? Could I dig a bit deeper into the ground and put stones in for drainage?
Theres no soak-away as it wasn't legally required when the houses were built but I've spoken to the NHBC and they've said we're in a high water table area so to speak to the council but I don't really know what to say.
I know planting will suck up some of the water but I didn't want to do much in our garden because everything is just getting water-logged and dies.
Any advice would be appreciated.