Part One: Spatial Strategy and Policies (Regulation 19)

Policy DLP48 Water Quality and Groundwater Source Protection Zones Comment

1. Development should follow the hierarchy (order of preference for foul drainage connection), as set out in the National Planning Practice Guidance. The Council requires non mains drainage proposals to assess the potential impacts upon water quality to ensure no detrimental impact on the water environment.

2. Proposals that would result in an unacceptable risk to the quality and / or quantity of a water body or water bodies will not be permitted. Strategies to help mitigate the impact of development on water quality will be required at planning application stage, these should also identify how they can improve water quality
3. No development will be permitted within a groundwater Source Protection Zone that would physically disturb an aquifer, and no permission will be granted without a risk assessment demonstrating there would be no adverse effect on water resources.