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Underground tank...
MrsCopsy
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If anyone can shed any light on this I’ll be very grateful. If found out that house that our sellers are buying has had the environmental search come back saying that it has “highlighted for an underground tank” and more information is needed from the local authority that this has been cleared prior to the building being built. Does anyone know if this is a huge problem? Thanks
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I once bought a house that was built on the site of an old petrol filling station that had underground fuel tanks so we also had to get further info on what had happened to them.
In our case it wasn't a major issue, they had been infilled with concrete, supervised by the local fire authority, and they provided a letter to confirm the procedure had been carried out properly.0 -
It's unlikely that nobody has previously thought about the issue. If a recent-ish development then the info might even be on the council's planning website.0
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Older property? Farmhouse or the like? We have two huge cisterns storing roof rainwater, originally then manually pumped to the barns for the animals. They are big and a little worrying ( one being slap bang under the middle of our front access, and at three metres deep and four wide they would cause a problem if they collapsed).
One additional reason they cause problems is, over time, they can accumulate all sorts of extra effluent that was never intendec.
Cleaned out and given an electric pump they can be very useful!0
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