Nuisance and the rule in Rylands v Fletcher—common law liability for pollutionPrivate nuisancePrivate nuisance is an unlawful interference with a...
Commercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSE)—environmental and health and safety enquiriesCommercial Property Standard Enquiries (CPSEs) are industry...
Sewers and drains—sewerage undertakers’ core duties and powersA sewerage undertaker is the company appointed by the Secretary of State or Ofwat to be...
BREEAM key requirementsWhat is BREEAM?The Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) is a method for evaluating...
Sewers and drains—sewerage undertakers’ core duties and powersA sewerage undertaker is the company appointed by the Secretary of State or Ofwat to be the sewerage undertaker for the area specified in its instrument of appointment under s 11(1) of the Water Act 1989 and continued in s 6(1) of the
Sewers and drains—developer’s rights and responsibilitiesThe developer of a housing estate or other facility will need to lay sewers and drains to deal with domestic sewerage and surface water. Sections 21 and 22 of the Building Act 1984 give a local authority the power to require drains to connect
Sewage disposal—regulation of the sewerage systemSewage disposal is regulated in England and Wales principally by the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994, SI 1994/2841 (1994 Regulations), which transposed the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
The Water Act 2014—SnapshotSummary of the Water Act 2014The purpose of the Water Act 2014 (WA 2014) was to reform the water industry by making it more innovative and responsive to customers and to increase its resilience to natural hazards such as drought and floods. WA 2014 includes measures to
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