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Sewage: Building Regulations

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will amend building regulations to prohibit the use of lightweight non-lockable covers for septic tanks. (124461)

Waste water systems, including septic tanks, are subject to the requirements in part H of the building regulations. Part H was last revised in 2002 and the related approved document specifically refer to cover to septic tanks. The guidance provided says:

“The access (cover) should be lockable or otherwise engineered to prevent personnel entry.”