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Can the Council Require Me to remove downpipes from a gully trap?
If the house was signed off by council - ie Code Compliance Certificate - then surely liability for any deficiencies is theirs.
What contribution are they making to rectify their error?
LOL the house was built post war - but only just - long, long before any building regs!
Soooooooo....... you're happy for storm-water to overload the sewage system and for pooh to pour straight into our rivers, streams and estuaries..... because that's the way we've always done it in the past and besides it's cheaper???????...tsk tsk
If I drive a 1990 car I wasn't required to retro fit airbags to it - even though they def save lives. If drove a 1930s car I don't think I'd even need seat belts. My point is that if the property was a new build or even a renovation which had required a plumbing consent - then changing the waste water would be fair enough - but this is a house that has been untouched structurally for the last 20 odd years.
You could've just said "YES"....waffling on about car safety is just an orange roughy..... simple fact is, that when it rains enough your property will contribute to polluting our waterways with pooh and you're willing to let that continue based on the fact that it will cost you some $$$$ to stop it......as I said before tsk tsk..... If it was me I'd spend the bucks to fix it ..... I'm all for being green without being too stupid about it..... eg I chose a diesel version of my car instead of a petrol one as it is greener (twice now)
The council should be more helpful than beligerent.
Why the short 4 month time frame? 12 months might be more reasonable.
And forcing costs on long existing properties - if they want it changed they should contribute - what happened to all those juicy development levies?
Forgive me, but I prefer to swim at the beach without feeling lumps during each stroke.
And that is exactly what happens. Just because the dwelling is pre-whatever doesn't give anyone the right to flout the laws, and if I was discharging rainwater into the waste water line, I would change it, whatever the cost.
In this instance, i don't believe council should contribute a cent to the rectification. But I know some of the PTr's will disagree with that, just look at the facts. The law has changed, so, we have to change. What if I didn't like the introduction of the decimal currency, should I flout the new law and stay with sterling. NO, moot point I know, but to prevent a poluted waterway we are all responsible.
LOL the house was built post war - but only just - long, long before any building regs!
If it's that old I doubt very much the Council had a reticulated sewerage system when it was built and there was either a septic tank on site or quite possibly a night cart - ever hear of one of those? - you'd put your little container of goodies out on the street and someone from the Council would come along, pick it up and take it away for disposal. Then at at some time when they introduced a reticulated sewerage system the house was connected to it.
It has never been legal to connect storm water to a reticulated sewerage system - too much storm water overloads it and stuffs it up.
So get over your misplaced indignation at the Council doing its job protecting the infrastructure assets of all ratepayers and go get it fixed.
If it's that old I doubt very much the Council had a reticulated sewerage system when it was built and there was either a septic tank on site or quite possibly a night cart - ever hear of one of those? - you'd put your little container of goodies out on the street and someone from the Council would come along, pick it up and take it away for disposal. Then at at some time when they introduced a reticulated sewerage system the house was connected to it.
It has never been legal to connect storm water to a reticulated sewerage system - too much storm water overloads it and stuffs it up.
So get over your misplaced indignation at the Council doing its job protecting the infrastructure assets of all ratepayers and go get it fixed.
Couldn't have said it better myself, and Aston is onto it also. We all suffer, I feel ,like issuing a compliance service request, but I met Lizzie, and she is a genuinely lovely person, so I want her to do it because its the right thing to do.
Council are trying to protect their network and overloads
if it is only the downpipe outside bathroom that is wrong, where do the other downpipes go?
if you have access in your floor space then you may be able to connect to other downpipes on other side of the house (under the floor)Concrete slab no so easy but a small soak hole no bod deal is the ground reasonably free draining or clay. (foxton? not river gravel by chance?)
I dont think stormwater needs a plumber as it would if it was wastewater. You can haunch the gully yourself 75mm I think is the requirement
Council are trying to protect their network and overloads
if it is only the downpipe outside bathroom that is wrong, where do the other downpipes go?
if you have access in your floor space then you may be able to connect to other downpipes on other side of the house (under the floor)Concrete slab no so easy but a small soak hole no bod deal is the ground reasonably free draining or clay. (foxton? not river gravel by chance?)
I dont think stormwater needs a plumber as it would if it was wastewater. You can haunch the gully yourself 75mm I think is the requirement
JTB, do us all a favour and don't reply to threads that are three years old unless you're asking a related question. Thanks.
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