Confirming possible soakaway issue

[^woody^]

Soakaways should be at least 5m from the foundations of a house or a road according to building regulations.

According to the BS and BRE guides (on which the building regulations are based), there is no mention of highways, just the potential impact on foundations - and even then it is stated as "not normally" and not "not ever".

Subject to suitable design, design capacity and local ground conditions, a soakaway could go much nearer to a house.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

According to the BS and BRE guides (on which the building regulations are based), there is no mention of highways, just the potential impact on foundations - and even then it is stated as "not normally" and not "not ever".

Subject to suitable design, design capacity and local ground conditions, a soakaway could go much nearer to a house.

We still don't know where, or how deep this soak-away is. If, as I suspect, it is in the shoulder of soil then I would expect it to flood out onto those blocks, as the block area is so close and so much lower. We are also waiting for the video..

 

[Leofric]

According to the BS and BRE guides (on which the building regulations are based), there is no mention of highways, just the potential impact on foundations - and even then it is stated as "not normally" and not "not ever".

Subject to suitable design, design capacity and local ground conditions, a soakaway could go much nearer to a house.

As far as bld regs go, Approved Document H3 ,3.25a simply states 'infiltration devices should not be built within 5m of a building or road or in areas of unstable land.'

 

[^woody^]

"Should" not "must".

 

[Leofric]

"Should" not "must".

I know what they mean by 'should not'. ' Should ' means ok to do it , 'should not ' means not ok to do it.