The council can lend you money to help pay for connecting your property to the drainage system. This is called an advance. You will have to pay back the money you borrowed from the council. The council's rules about lending money for drainage connections were changed by the Local Government Act 2002.
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462: Council may declare private drain to be public drain, or
"Council can make some private drains public drains after a meeting."
464: Owner may recover proportion of cost of drainage connections from tenant under a lease with not less than 3 years unexpired, or
"Landlord can ask tenant to pay part of drainage connection cost if lease has 3+ years left"
