hi all,
we have our bill for council planning charges for the crazy sum of €7500 which includes almost 3500 for water charges for connecting to the public mains. we were planning on boring for our own well, not only because it's cheaper (1900), but because we wanted our own water supply and well.
when we went into our local planning dept to pay the bill (minus the water charge) we were told that we had to pay this charge, even if we didn't use the public water and if we were boring our own well.
this seems really ridiculous to us. we thought we should have the choice of having our own well as we are living in the countryside, have plenty of space to have a pump house etc, would be confident in our water supply and not have to worry about future water charges etc.
it seems to us to be another power trip of the local county council and another way of making money from us, we are giving them 2500 for roads (you should see the roads!!), and 1500 for community (we live 2 miles from the nearest village)
is there any way out of paying this water charge so that we can put in our own well???? any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
we have our bill for council planning charges for the crazy sum of €7500 which includes almost 3500 for water charges for connecting to the public mains. we were planning on boring for our own well, not only because it's cheaper (1900), but because we wanted our own water supply and well.
when we went into our local planning dept to pay the bill (minus the water charge) we were told that we had to pay this charge, even if we didn't use the public water and if we were boring our own well.
this seems really ridiculous to us. we thought we should have the choice of having our own well as we are living in the countryside, have plenty of space to have a pump house etc, would be confident in our water supply and not have to worry about future water charges etc.
it seems to us to be another power trip of the local county council and another way of making money from us, we are giving them 2500 for roads (you should see the roads!!), and 1500 for community (we live 2 miles from the nearest village)
is there any way out of paying this water charge so that we can put in our own well???? any help would be greatly appreciated!!!