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I live in a semi detached bungalow. The property next door is rented out by a local neighbour and I share share access to a septic tank installed in his garden i.e next door.
I have read recently of the new 2020 regulations concerning septic tanks that mean any tank that discharges to surface water. The following is an extract from the GOV site on the matter.
If you have a septic tank that discharges directly to a surface water you will need to replace or upgrade your treatment system by 1 January 2020. Where properties with septic tanks that discharge directly to surface water are sold before 1 January 2020, responsibility for the replacement or upgrade of the existing treatment system should be addressed between the buyer and seller as a condition of sale.
A few weeks ago the landlord of the property next door spoke to me briefly about perhaps looking at a more environmentally friendly tank saying with these you get clean drinking water as the end product but at that time I had no idea of the new requirements and he didn't pursue it further when I said that at my age (78) and my wife(80) I wasn't looking to spend on any replacement tank. I believe our tank discharges across a field a the back into to some sort of small creek which runs along a private lane that serves his and some other properties or but I have never really looked.
Our title deeds state (I am No 1):
The right of the owners and occupiers for the time being of No 2 to retain effluent pipes serving the septic tank laid in the garden of No 2 which said pipes are constructed in that part of the adjoining enclosure as lies at the rear of the property known as numbers and two.
All existing rights easements quasi-easements and all other rights of a similar nature that may exist and effect the property conveyed or any part there of TOGETHER WITH the right to pass water and soil through the pipes and into the septic tank situated on the property known as No.2 upon paying a proportionate part of the expense of keeping the said septic tank cleansed and in good repair together with all such rights of access as may be necessary for proper exercise of these rights
Anyone care to give an opinion as to whether if the tank in number 2 has to be replaced in the future whether I am liable for half the cost?
Thanks
I live in a semi detached bungalow. The property next door is rented out by a local neighbour and I share share access to a septic tank installed in his garden i.e next door.
I have read recently of the new 2020 regulations concerning septic tanks that mean any tank that discharges to surface water. The following is an extract from the GOV site on the matter.
If you have a septic tank that discharges directly to a surface water you will need to replace or upgrade your treatment system by 1 January 2020. Where properties with septic tanks that discharge directly to surface water are sold before 1 January 2020, responsibility for the replacement or upgrade of the existing treatment system should be addressed between the buyer and seller as a condition of sale.
A few weeks ago the landlord of the property next door spoke to me briefly about perhaps looking at a more environmentally friendly tank saying with these you get clean drinking water as the end product but at that time I had no idea of the new requirements and he didn't pursue it further when I said that at my age (78) and my wife(80) I wasn't looking to spend on any replacement tank. I believe our tank discharges across a field a the back into to some sort of small creek which runs along a private lane that serves his and some other properties or but I have never really looked.
Our title deeds state (I am No 1):
The right of the owners and occupiers for the time being of No 2 to retain effluent pipes serving the septic tank laid in the garden of No 2 which said pipes are constructed in that part of the adjoining enclosure as lies at the rear of the property known as numbers and two.
All existing rights easements quasi-easements and all other rights of a similar nature that may exist and effect the property conveyed or any part there of TOGETHER WITH the right to pass water and soil through the pipes and into the septic tank situated on the property known as No.2 upon paying a proportionate part of the expense of keeping the said septic tank cleansed and in good repair together with all such rights of access as may be necessary for proper exercise of these rights
Anyone care to give an opinion as to whether if the tank in number 2 has to be replaced in the future whether I am liable for half the cost?
Thanks
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