Three Oaks sewage works '˜situation has stalled'

Eight months after a Three Oaks sewage works was approved a legal agreement has still not been signed.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Jun 2016, 15:36 BST
Updated 25th Aug 2016, 17:14 BST

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Southern Water’s application for a wastewater treatment works and pumping station off Fourteen Acres Lane and Butcher’s Lane was given the go-ahead by East Sussex County Council’s planning committee back in October.

The two facilities would cover all waste water flows within Three Oaks as households currently rely on private drainage systems.

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While a legal agreement between Southern Water and the county council has been drafted, it has not yet been signed due to the utility company still needing to resolve land ownership issues.

Back in October the planning committee resolved that if the agreement had not been completed within six months after the resolution the application would be referred back to members.

County councillors agreed to a two-month time extension to allow the legal agreement to be signed back in April.

But according to officers the ‘situation has stalled’, but these were ‘unusual circumstances’ and it was only a ‘matter of time before completion will take place’.

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Last Wednesday (June 22) the planning committee agreed to a further extension to allow Southern Water until September 22 to complete the legal agreement.

If this does not happen the application will have to come back to committee for a fourth time.

Godfrey Daniel, chair of the committee, said: “I hope this scheme gets put into operation because it’s for the local people.”

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