South Hams District Council Drainage
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South hams district council drainage. Have your say on highway maintenance in devon complete our public satisfaction survey now. Environmental health south hams district council monitoring issues in the environment that can have an effect on your health including noise smoke air quality drainage and more. These powers are contained in the land drainage act 1991 and land drainage act 1994 and sections 259 265 of the public health act 1936. Alternatively take a look at our help and support page where we ve brought together the answers to our most commonly asked questions.
Any type of development that connects to the mains or a non mains system will need a drainage assessment or statement to confirm the proposed arrangement. Click on the link scroll down and accept the disclaimer then tick critical drainage areas in the flood risk drop down menu. Okehampton north east tavistock. Or you can use devon county council s map to search for cdas.
This includes householder applications for additional bedrooms bathrooms. Planning and critical drainage areas areas identified as a cda. Drainage assessments must include fould drainage and surface water drainage assessments. The council can serve notice and carry out works if ditches have become blocked resulting in a flood risk or health hazard.
Delivery of a sustainable urban drainage solution to provide an improvement to surface run off rates from the site. If the problem you wish to report is not listed above please use our live chat facility. Parish council support south hams district council drainage officer no objection subject to condition based on the information provided we would support the current proposal. Householder applications householder drainage guidance 695 56kb major applications major drainage guidance 328 43kb minor applications minor drainage guidance 581 75kb small minor applications small minor drainage guidance 660 71kb change of use and replacement dwellings cou and rep drainage guidance 706 04kb.
South hams district has the highest proportion of rural residency of all districts in devon with only 21 of residents living in urban towns cities. Maps for these areas can be downloaded from the right of this page. Drainage south hams district council we are responsible for making sure that new developments will not be affected by flooding or will not cause a risk of flooding to others.