Caporegime
Yeah, I really don’t know how complicated it’s going to be. The house is next to the road with water and drainage running pretty close, and the house is already connected to the neighbour’s water — in my naive view, it can’t be that difficult, right? … Right guys?
I suspect it'll turn out to be really rather more complicated than that. Houses are supposed to have independent connections to the watermain, aren't they? Running a parasitic connection off the neighbour's mains connection probably doesn't meet standards. I suspect they'll have to run a whole new connection to the watermain, which could be tricky. Also, they can't just slap a meter in and call the job a good 'un since that'd presumably end up with the water being double counted since it's already come through the neighbour's meter.
On the drainage side, it probably just depends on whether the drains it is leaving through are considered to be large enough to take everything.