![]() Yes, these cannot be filled or maintained using a hosepipe.Ĭan I fill my swimming/paddling pool during a ban? It’s our responsibility to provide the water for you to do that, and a TUB is one of the ways we make sure that we can continue to do this. Your bill is paying for water you’re using for drinking, washing, sanitation and central heating. I am not on a meter and have a fixed charge bill? Will I get a discount? “Using a hosepipe for domestic recreational use” includes operating water slides and other recreational equipment. The prohibitions apply whether or not any device is attached to the hosepipe, such as a sprinkler for example. “Hosepipe” includes anything designed, adapted or used to serve the same purpose as a hosepipe. “Garden” includes a park, gardens open to the public, a domestic garden, a lawn, a grass verge, an allotment used for non-commercial purposes and any other green space. "Using a hosepipe" includes the drawing of water supplied by the company from a container through a hosepipe and filling a container by means of a hosepipe with water supplied by the company. Commercial cleaning of a private leisure boat.In the course of a business to clean private motor vehicles where this is done as a service to customers.Commercial customers that use hosepipes in the course of their day-to-day business operation (for example hand car washing, window cleaning, graffiti removal), excluding the watering of domestic gardens.Cleaning a private leisure boat vessel of primary residence where fouling is causing increased fuel consumption and where engines are designed to be cleaned by a hosepipe.Using an approved drip or trickle irrigation watering system, fitted with a pressure reducing valve and a timer, that are not handheld, that place water drip by drip directly onto the soil surface or beneath the soil surface, without any surface run off or dispersion of water through the air using a jet or mist.However, we ask all customers to use water wisely. NB Watering areas of grass, which are used for sport or recreation, is covered by a Statu to ry Exception for health and safety only in relation to the active strip/playing area, not the entire ground.Ĭurrent Blue Badge Holders, and our customers on our Priority Services Register and WaterSure Tariff on the grounds of disability and medical requirements, are exempt from the ban. Filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain which is in or near a fish-pond and whose purpose is to supply sufficient oxygen to the water in the pond in order to keep the fish healthy.Filling or maintaining a domestic pond in which fish or other aquatic animals are being reared or kept in captivity and.Filling or maintaining a pool in which fish or other aquatic animals are being reared or kept in captivity.Filling or maintaining a pool used in the course of a programme of veterinary treatment.Filling or maintaining a pool that is used for the purpose of decontaminating animals from infections or disease.Filling or maintaining a pool that is designed, constructed or adapted for use in the course of a programme of medical treatment.Filling or maintaining a pool where necessary in the course of its construction.Cleaning any area of a private leisure boat which, except for doors or windows, is enclosed by a roof and walls or for health and safety reasons.Watering plants that are (1) grown or kept for sale or commercial use, or (2) that are part of a National Plant Collection or temporary garden or flower display.Using a hosepipe to water a garden for health or safety reasons, and where this includes (a) removing or minimising any risk to human or animal health or safety and (b) preventing or controlling the spread of causative agents of disease.There are hosepipe-using activities that are not included in the ban. NB: You can still carry out the above activities with mains water as long as you use a bucket or watering can.Īnyone found completing any of these activities with a hosepipe, without permission from us to do so, may be fine d up to £1,000. Cleaning other artificial outdoor surfaces.Cleaning walls, or windows, of domestic premises.Filling or maintaining an ornamental fountain (unless its purpose is to keep fish healthy).Filling or maintaining a domestic pond (unless it has fish in it).Drawing water, using a hosepipe, for domestic recreational use (this includes hot tubs). ![]() Filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool (some exceptions below).Watering plants on domestic or other non-commercial premises.Cleaning a private motor-vehicle (this includes taxis).Watering a garden (this includes allotments).Under the ban, you can't use a hosepipe (including sprinklers, dipper hoses, automatic irrigation systems and other similar devices) for the following activities: ![]()
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