Sir, – Seeing that the details of all septic tanks installed since 1963 are already registered with the various county council planning offices and the relevant fees paid at the time, surely only those installed pre-1963 need to be registered next year?
The collation of the details of post-1963 tanks can easily be done now in each county and forwarded to the department by all the underworked planning officers (who now have little else to do), none of whom, as far as I am aware, has lost his or her job since the cessation of building three years ago. – Yours, etc,