Buying house with no septic tank or sewage connection

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heli1

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I am looking at buying a property which has recently come on the market. It is a three bedroom house on 0.2 of an acre. It has no sceptic tank and no connection to mains sewage. It is a restricted planning area. The house was previously occupied many years ago where the owner used a chamber pot as a toilet. The house would need to be nocked and a new one to replace it. I was wondering could one be refused permission in this restricted area because it is a green belt area, even if there is currently a domestic building and even if you put in a new bioscepic tank on a site effectively 0.2 acres.
 
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Peeete said:
I presume the tank is not "sceptic" but in fact septic. If it was it would be a very clever tank :D
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On the other hand, I'd be very sceptical about buying a house like that! (Sorry)
 
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Sorry about the spelling, I was rushing. Does anyone know, if you were to rebuild the house on the same footprint, could you be refused permission because the site is so small (0.2 acres)?
 
I thought if a house was standing you can get permission to knock and build, don't know anything about bio septic tanks, can you connect to the mains instead. You should go down to your local planning office and have a chat with them and they should be able to tell you the chances of getting planning or not. You can also purchase the house with a condition that it is subject to planning permission being obtained as long as the seller agrees.
 
Many thanks for help, will purchase pending planning I think. By the way, no mains sewage to connect to either.
 
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heli1 said:
could you be refused permission because the site is so small (0.2 acres)?
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Each Council has different rules on that but .5 min would be the minimum. Do you have a well also?
 
as far as I know you would be in trouble if you bought that house. Councils have a rule that you need at least 1/2 acre to build a house. But there is also the distances that a well must be away from a septic tank and a septic tank away from boundries - you simply wouldn't fit the tank in there. Not to mention the percolation area.

You don't get planning permission, just because there was a house there previously - any new planning application would be under current guidelines and this wouldn't fit.

I had somewhat similar problem with an extension and the only way we could get around it was to put the percolation area on ajoining land - which we didn;t own, but we could have got a Leeway (not even close to the correct spelling) from the farmer who owned the land. Basically, we gave him a few pound and he let us dig a percolation area and cover it over again.

We didn't go ahead as it was just getting too messey (and I don't mean the house after the chamber pot).
 
yeah we had the same problem. Could be very messy to get it sorted, we couldn't in the end. Planning restricted areas are a nightmare. Your area sounds too small to allow for a tank. We had .5 acre and still had hassle.
 
browser said:
as far as I know you would be in trouble if you bought that house. Councils have a rule that you need at least 1/2 acre to build a house. But there is also the distances that a well must be away from a septic tank and a septic tank away from boundries - you simply wouldn't fit the tank in there. Not to mention the percolation area.

You don't get planning permission, just because there was a house there previously - any new planning application would be under current guidelines and this wouldn't fit.

I had somewhat similar problem with an extension and the only way we could get around it was to put the percolation area on ajoining land - which we didn;t own, but we could have got a Leeway (not even close to the correct spelling) from the farmer who owned the land. Basically, we gave him a few pound and he let us dig a percolation area and cover it over again.

We didn't go ahead as it was just getting too messey (and I don't mean the house after the chamber pot).
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browser said:
as far as I know you would be in trouble if you bought that house. Councils have a rule that you need at least 1/2 acre to build a house. But there is also the distances that a well must be away from a septic tank and a septic tank away from boundries - you simply wouldn't fit the tank in there. Not to mention the percolation area.

You don't get planning permission, just because there was a house there previously - any new planning application would be under current guidelines and this wouldn't fit.

I had somewhat similar problem with an extension and the only way we could get around it was to put the percolation area on ajoining land - which we didn;t own, but we could have got a Leeway (not even close to the correct spelling) from the farmer who owned the land. Basically, we gave him a few pound and he let us dig a percolation area and cover it over again.

We didn't go ahead as it was just getting too messey (and I don't mean the house after the chamber pot).
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Do you know the house I am talking about?
 
I have no idea of the house you are talking about - just commenting on a different house from personal experience.
 
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