Will they MAKE me fit a water meter?

deanos

Quite simply if the stop tap is on your property AW will not change it without your permission

Frugal_Foxy

mervyn11 wrote: »

They will be able to trace the pipes without digging anything up.
There are various ways of doing this electronically.
They will still need to come onto your property though.

Thank you, interesting.

Frugal_Foxy

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

Rules for enforced metering due to water stress from page 19

Would seem that part of Anglian Water is in an area of water stress: -
Water Stress areas PDF

Looks like you are stuck and judging by this we may well be in for this ourselves soon.

Thank you, I've read them both, again, interesting.

Frugal_Foxy

Cardew wrote: »

The deeds of your house will state the position on 'Easement' and the right of the water company to come on your land.

Normally there is easement if a sewer or common water supply runs under your land.

Take a hypothetical situation where there was a large leak under your land, and you wouldn't allow the water company on your land. In that case they would be within their rights to cut off the supply to your house.

It may well be that exactly the same situation would occur if you denied access to your land simply because you wished to circumvent the law the allows a meter to be fitted. - i.e. you could be cut-off/have supply restricted.

No 'one size fits all solution' and it could well finish up in court. However it is unlikely IMO that a water company would let you continue to be unmetered for fear of setting a precedent; nor should they allow you to obstruct a sensible and fair law.

Deeds 300 years old, nothing new in there that even remotely looks like anything 'modern' ie easement. Thanks for your comments. I will post what they finally say but I won't hold my breath.

BTW the only objection is due to age and fragility of property - even banging outside causes movement and cracking of plaster internally. If they can convince me they wont come anywhere near my house and wont dig up my paths and entry, then I wouldn't potentially have a problem.

Frugal_Foxy

ps: it's a listed grade II* property

macman

They will install the meter as near to the boundary as they can, it's not exactly a major excavation to fit a meter.

deanos

macman wrote: »

They will install the meter as near to the boundary as they can, it's not exactly a major excavation to fit a meter.

Angilian water will replace the original s/t , if that is on the property then that is where it will go but will need permission if on private land

Cardew

macman wrote: »

They will install the meter as near to the boundary as they can, it's not exactly a major excavation to fit a meter.

They might try 'fracking' at the same time;)