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I live in a 1st floor flat and have an overflow pipe which is slowly
dripping outside. The pipe is white, about 1 inch diameter and exits
the building at floor height.

I suspect that it may be my immersion heater or bath. Could someone
help me out?

The immersion heater has 2 electrical cables each connecting to a
seperate power switch on the wall next to it. The top switch on the
wall is on and the red power light is on. The bottom switch is on but
the red light is off.

I've also noticed that my bath takes over 10 minutes to empty about
10cms of water. Could this also be a candidate for my problem?

Unlikely to be immersion heater, also unlikely to be the bath, unless it's
full to the brim most of the time.
Where does the overflow from your toilet cistern go? - if it is a low level
cistern, take the lid off and have a look inside, it's probably that which
is constantly filling up and overflowing, if it is (you'll see the water
going down a 1 inch pipe), flush the toilet and before it fills upo again,
adjust the screw on the ballcock arm so that the ballcock doesn't rise as
high, if it's on a metal arm, bend it slightly downwards (only about half an
inch).

HTH