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Water Supply / Planning Permisson

  • 15-10-2014 8:11am
    #1
    soloeffort79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭


    When I applied for planning permission (house built now and living in it) I noted that I would be connecting to the local group water scheme. Because I selected this I was liable to pay the Water charge on the contribution scheme. Now, currently I have not connected to the scheme and have my own source of water (rain water harvesting) and sourcing drinking water separately. I have not paid all of the contribution yet, my question is should i have to pay for the water in the contribution scheme if I am not connect and at the moment do not intend connecting ever?


Comments

  • #2
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Your not compliant with your planning conditions, best to contact the council to rectify


  • #3
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    If you propose on your planning application to source your own water certain counties request a test certificate showing that the water is potable before you are allowed occupy the house.

    They wouldn't ask for this if you said you were connecting to a group scheme because the scheme have to carry out their own regular tests.

    Beware of this before you approach the Council. (Also I have never prepared a planning application for a house that had no proposed source of potable water - I'm not sure how the council would view this!)


  • #4
    soloeffort79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭soloeffort79


    I did have in my planning that I would be using the rain water for use within the house, this was never questioned in the conditions...


  • #5
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    But you also said your drinking water supply was going to come from the group scheme?!

    P.S. Rainwater can be treated to make it potable in a number of ways if you want to go down that road but it will possibly/probably be more expensive than connecting to the group scheme.

    Anyway - regardless of where you water comes from if you think you shouldn't have to pay part of your contribution the easiest thing to do is write to the council and ask them or employ a local planning professional to do it for you. Bear in mind that they may ask further questions about the source of your water.

    With regards to not being compliant with your planning this could come back to bite you when if you are selling or passing it on to your children so get the same professional to sort it out. It shouldn't be difficult.


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