Member

I think it was in June that the Government brought forward their national standards for sustainable drains. That is why I believe that Amendment 342 is extremely timely. It adds weight to the Government’s recently introduced national standards for sustainable drainage systems by making the right to connect to the public sewer conditional on having applied the standards first. Changing the right to connect to the public sewer should be conditional on first having followed these new standards; that will provide a more robust incentive to developers to follow this guidance, in the absence of full implementation of Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. Obviously, however, my preference is that the Government will be minded to support Amendments 337 and 342.