Sewerage sector documents: Change proposal (Ref 008) - Modification to Model Sewerage Adoption Agreement: Changes to occupancy and Surety requirements for land promoters
| Date | 16 May 2022 |
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Sewerage sector documents: Change proposal (Ref 008)
Modification proposal
Model Sewerage Adoption Agreement: Changes to occupancy
and Surety requirements for land promoters
Independent Sewerage
Adoption Panel
Recommendation
The Panel recommended rejecting the change proposal
Decision
Ofwat has rejected this change proposal
Publication date
16/05/2022
Implementation date
Not Applicable
Background
L&Q Estates (L&Q), a land promoter, submitted this change proposal on 5 November 2021 to
the Independent Sewerage Adoption Panel (the Panel), with the Panel publishing the
proposal on its website on the same day. The function of the Panel is to consider change
proposals to the sewerage sector guidance and model sewerage adoption agreement which
apply to companies operating wholly or mainly in England. These documents were developed
by companies as required by the Code for Adoption Agreements (the Code) and came into
effect in April 2020. A change proposal is defined in the Code as a proposed change to the
sector guidance or the model adoption agreements.
Land promoters and master developers are organisations that facilitate the building of new
properties by other developers. L&Q has set out that they do not construct houses, but
instead divide land into discrete development plots which are then serviced with primary
infrastructure such as sewerage infrastructure. These plots are then sold to housing
developers under a model known as the "Serviced Site Model".
L&Q has proposed two changes be made to the Model Sewerage Adoption Agreement (the
Model Agreement):
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