Launched on the 1st of April 2022, Thames Water is offering Environmental Discounts of their new infrastructure installation quotations, that will be applicable to all new developments within their supply area. Split over three tiers, this scheme is being introduced to encourage developers achieve a high standard of water efficiency, whilst driving enhanced performance to reduce the pressure on water availability. Whitecode is introducing this scheme to ensure that customers fully understand the benefits and savings that are available to them.
The Thames Water supply area has been classified as ‘seriously water stressed’ by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), and their forecasting shows a significant future supply-demand deficit. DEFRA predicts that shortfalls of up to 1.1bn litres of water a day are forecast by 2040 if no action is taken.
Housing developers who prepare to build new properties fitted with water efficient appliances such as showers and washing machines and use rainwater or greywater for toilet flushing and watering plants, will be offered incentives for reducing wastewater. This means that developers could save up to as much of £1,800 on the charges they pay Thames Water to connect to the public water supply. If developers are eligible for the discounts, they will then need to provide evidence of this to Thames Water, alongside applications for New Connection Services.
Waterwise Managing Director, Nicci Russell, spoke highly of the initiative:
“This is a fantastic scheme and I urge developers to take Thames Water up on it – these discounts mean new houses waste less water and cost less to build.”
To qualify for discounts on schemes, Thames Water will require specific information to be provided in the initial stage. This may require additional design consultation to make suitable allowances at an early stage of the development to ensure that these requirements could be met.
If customers meet the criteria for these schemes, Whitecode is happy to support its customers in providing the correct supporting evidence of their qualification for the scheme to Thames Water.
For more information about the scheme, visit www.thameswater.co.uk