PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing Improvement (20 October 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with water companies to produce cost guidelines for those involved in the process of extending their properties.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

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.

Answered by:
Dan Rogerson (Liberal Democrat)
23 October 2014