Housing Improvement

(asked on 20th October 2014) - View Source

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.


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Dan Rogerson
This question was answered on 23rd October 2014

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.

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