Hi all,
We're building our PPOR on a clay site in Perth's eastern suburbs. We've received conditional building approval from our council subject to the on site retention of stormwater. Our builder had assumed that we could dispose of our storm water via the council drains.
We've been advised that there is limited capacity in the street network and it's simply not possible to connect to this network.
Our problem is that we've designed our entire build around the future subdivision of our block. I think our builder solution is to dump massive soak wells on the future subdivided land. I don't suppose anyone has experience with challenging a condition such as this? Are we any chance of convincing the council?
Also does anyone have any experience with containing stormwater on clay sites? Are there any reasonable options outside of massive soak wells? Also, am I right in assuming that in a strata subdivision that drains from either property could be located on a common driveway?
We're building our PPOR on a clay site in Perth's eastern suburbs. We've received conditional building approval from our council subject to the on site retention of stormwater. Our builder had assumed that we could dispose of our storm water via the council drains.
We've been advised that there is limited capacity in the street network and it's simply not possible to connect to this network.
Our problem is that we've designed our entire build around the future subdivision of our block. I think our builder solution is to dump massive soak wells on the future subdivided land. I don't suppose anyone has experience with challenging a condition such as this? Are we any chance of convincing the council?
Also does anyone have any experience with containing stormwater on clay sites? Are there any reasonable options outside of massive soak wells? Also, am I right in assuming that in a strata subdivision that drains from either property could be located on a common driveway?