Does Environment Agency insist on a communal sewage treatment plant for new estates?
 

Or can builders opt to install individual septic tanks/cesspits?

These are small housing estates of up to, say, 50 houses not on mains
drainage.

MM

Does Environment Agency insist on a communal sewage treatment plant for new estates?
 

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:14:30 +0100, MM wrote:

Or can builders opt to install individual septic tanks/cesspits?

These are small housing estates of up to, say, 50 houses not on mains
drainage.

See
http://publications.environment-agen...06BJGL-E-E.pdf

The method to be used will be part of the conditions for planning
permission for the site.

Does Environment Agency insist on a communal sewage treatment plant for new estates?
 

[Default] On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:14:30 +0100, a certain chimpanzee, MM
, randomly hit the keyboard and wrote:

Or can builders opt to install individual septic tanks/cesspits?

These are small housing estates of up to, say, 50 houses not on mains
drainage.

Whichever works. If the area of land available to the individual
houses is large enough, they could have their own, otherwise a
communal system is required. I suspect it's the developer who would
prefer a single larger system than 50 individual systems.
--
Hugo Nebula
"If no-one on the internet wants a piece of this,
just how far from the pack have I strayed"?

Does Environment Agency insist on a communal sewage treatmentplant for new estates?
 

Hugo Nebula wrote:
[Default] On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:14:30 +0100, a certain chimpanzee, MM
, randomly hit the keyboard and wrote:

Or can builders opt to install individual septic tanks/cesspits?

These are small housing estates of up to, say, 50 houses not on mains
drainage.

Whichever works. If the area of land available to the individual
houses is large enough, they could have their own, otherwise a
communal system is required. I suspect it's the developer who would
prefer a single larger system than 50 individual systems.

Yes, but it's a pig of a problem: Same thing happens with private
roads..who is going to pay to maintain it?

"I **** less than you do"

In one road the people near the exit complained that

a) they never used the top, so why should they pay and almost in the
same breath

b) that other people further up the road should pay for their bit, as it
was them who used it the most!

ISTR similar howls of protest when someone tried to scale council taxes
according to number of occupiers..

Does Environment Agency insist on a communal sewage treatment plant for new estates?
 

[Default] On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:58:30 +0100, a certain chimpanzee,
The Natural Philosopher , randomly hit the
keyboard and wrote:

Yes, but it's a pig of a problem: Same thing happens with private
roads..who is going to pay to maintain it?

"I **** less than you do"

In one road the people near the exit complained that

a) they never used the top, so why should they pay and almost in the
same breath

b) that other people further up the road should pay for their bit, as it
was them who used it the most!

And this matters to a housing estate developer, how...?
--
Hugo Nebula
"If no-one on the internet wants a piece of this,
just how far from the pack have I strayed"?

Does Environment Agency insist on a communal sewage treatmentplant for new estates?
 

Hugo Nebula wrote:
[Default] On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:58:30 +0100, a certain chimpanzee,
The Natural Philosopher , randomly hit the
keyboard and wrote:

Yes, but it's a pig of a problem: Same thing happens with private
roads..who is going to pay to maintain it?

"I **** less than you do"

In one road the people near the exit complained that

a) they never used the top, so why should they pay and almost in the
same breath

b) that other people further up the road should pay for their bit, as it
was them who used it the most!

And this matters to a housing estate developer, how...?
It OUGHT to affect saleabiliy and price.