Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to work with water companies to produce a set of procedures for those involved in the process of extending their properties.
Water company representatives are currently working with the building industry to produce a code of practice on how they handle requests about extensions to houses situated on land which may contain a sewer. A code should introduce greater transparency about the processes involved, and associated costs.