Cllr. Healy Rae questions application of new waste-water regulations
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CLLR. Danny Healy Rae put forward the following notice of motion at the council meeting on January 18 last.
Cllr. Healy-Rae asked the planning authority if, as is rumoured, the site assessment is going to be harder to achieve in 2010 — also why does Kerry Co. Council not allow percolating soil to be built on top where sufficient depth cannot be achieved due to bed rock — how is it that Co. Cork still use the old SR6 regulations. The reply he got states that a new code of practice of wastewater treatment systems for single houses was published by the EPA in late 2009 which will become the new national standard for the design and construction of such systems.
Once adopted, site assessments and design proposals for all single house treatment systems will have to comply with the new code of practice, Cllr. Healy Rae is very concerned with Kerry Co. Council's confirmation that the new standards that are to come into force will mean that it will be almost impossible for applicants to get permission for one off houses in many parts of Kerry and pointed out to the members that other counties so far are not as strict with the site assessment for wastewater systems for single rural housing.
