John Borman wrote:

No! The Environment Agency are responsible for all consents not the
planners or building control. The same rules apply to the whole of England
and Wales. There is exemption from consent where the output volume is very
low. What varies is the ground conditions and this may mean that a septic
tank is not allowed where there is heavy clay and no room for a large
soakaway. Just my situation except that there was room and the soakaway
area is huge!


We have quite a large pond that at present wont hold water, so a regular
input of water from a reed bed sewage treatment plant should be able to be
discharged into it??


Use rainwater runoff.