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Building control have now allowed me to use the existing soak away for the adjacent building which is nearly 3 metres away from the new build, I told them that over 200 litres of water was put through the connecting man hole and there was no back flow and as the land around the soak away is on a slight hill this would mean that the water would drain away from the building. Thanks everybody for your opinions much appreciated.

Ok, the building is already built, its my building. At the time I was not aware of the rules so never took a position on the matter. The building control do not know about the soakaway that already exists. The soakaway is 2 metres from my new build. The water company will not let me combine my foul water with the surface water so I cannot use the man hole for the foul water to send the surface water. Distance to the point where I can connect a surface water pipe to the water companies pipe is quite far and the cost is upwards of £18,000. Should I mention to building control about the existing soak away, and risked them ordering me to also move this soak away. The ground drainage rate isnt to good because it is clay based. I could just get 5 metre distance for a new soak away from the new build but because of the slow rate of soakaway this may not work, could there be a case to make the soakaway much larger? Thanks so far for your time to answer.

Hi I hope I can get an answer here. I have a self build in my side garden, unfortunately the builder was a crook and took advantage of my lack of knowledge. The property that I live in has a soak away that runs into my side garden this has been there long since I moved in. The new build has been built 2 metres away from that soak away. I have an issue with ground water disposal, the water company will not let me pump it into the same man hole as the foul water, and the other alternative is to connet to the pipe in the street to solve this issue, but the cost to do this would be £18'000 upwards. Building control are not aware of the presence of a soak away and now I am concerned that this will also be an issue for me if I mention this soak away, idearly I would like to connect to this soak away but am not sure what building control will say if I mention the present soak away. There is not much room for another soak away on the property and the drainage is not to good as the earth is mostly clay. What can I do? Thanks