The Department for Infrastructure (the “Department”)
has issued its public consultation on Developer Contributions for
Wastewater Infrastructure. This consultation opened on 21 March
2025 and will run until noon on 27 June 2025.
The purpose of the consultation is to gather views on whether
the Department should introduce developer contributions to help
fund improvements to the wastewater infrastructure. One of the key
objectives in the recently published Programme for Government is to
increase housing stock, in particular, social housing. Developers
are prepared to create developments to make this a reality,
however, this necessitates the vital connection and improvement to
the current wastewater infrastructure. Over 100 areas of the
wastewater system are operating at capacity. This in turn hinders
further development and the provision of new housing stock as
developers are unable to obtain connections to the existing
wastewater infrastructure.
