Amy Taylor
Amy has a mixed practice that includes criminal, regulatory, family, and civil law. She has a particular interest in environmental and animal law, and has experience in Magistrates’ Court and Crown Court cases concerning waste offences under section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. She has also undertaken devilling work in drafting an advice to the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
During pupillage, Amy conducted research and drafted advices for members of chambers on environmental matters including obtaining information using compulsory powers under the Environment Act 1995, the end of waste test, whether an abatement notice could be varied, and permitted development rights in conservation areas.
In addition to her practice at the Bar, Amy coordinates and contributes to 6 Pump Court’s environmental blog and recently gave a talk at the UK Animal Law Conference on climate change and its effects on wildlife.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2021
Membership
- Criminal Bar Association
- Health and Safety Lawyers Association
- UK Centre for Animal Law
- UK Environmental Law Association
Education
- LLB, University of Liverpool
- LLM, University of Groningen, with an exchange semester at McGill University
- BPTC, City Law School
2 Contributions by Amy Taylor
PRACTICE NOTES
Public sewer and lateral drain requisitions, first-time sewerage, charging and enforcement under the Water Industry Act 1991 (England and Wales)
A sewerage undertaker owes a general obligation under section 94(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991 (WIA 1991) to secure that the area for which it is responsible is, and remains, effectually drained. That obligation is enforceable solely by Ofwat under WIA 1991, s 18. Consequently, to make sure domestic requirements of premises are satisfied by connection to the principal sewerage network within a reasonable period, developers, or owners and occupiers of existing premises, have a right to requisition sewers or lateral drains to meet those needs under s 98 of the Act, provided the financial provisions set out in s 99 (as amended by the Water Act 2014 (WA 2014)) are observed.
Making a requisition
A requisition begins with the formal service of a notice on the sewerage undertaker requiring provision of a sewer or a lateral drain. Only the owner or occupier of premises to be served by the sewer or drain, or a local authority, the new towns residuary body, a development corporation—or a Mayoral development corporation—within whose area the sewer or drain is to be installed, may give such a notice. The notice must identify particular premises, which must either contain buildings upon them or in...
Environment
PRACTICE NOTES
Sewerage undertakers’ statutory powers and duties for sewers and drains: streets and other land, notices and entry, compensation and advance payments, property, relocation, closure and extinguishment (England and Wales)
Undertakers’ powers to lay pipes
The powers available to a sewerage undertaker to install sewers, lateral drains and disposal mains are set out in sections 158 and 159 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (WIA 1991). An undertaker may invoke these powers both within, and beyond, its own area of operation. Those powers apply both inside and outside its area. For the purposes of the WIA 1991, any mention of a pipe—including a main, drain or sewer—also covers a tunnel or conduit that serves, or is intended to serve, as that pipe, together with any fittings or accessories for it. References to laying a pipe extend to building such a tunnel or conduit, to constructing or installing those fittings or accessories, and to forming a connection from one pipe to another. This expressly includes the making of a connection between one pipe and another. Where an undertaker proposes to lay a pipe—other than a storm water overflow sewer—outside its boundaries, it must first give notice of the proposal to the undertaker for the area concerned. The works may proceed only with that undertaker’s consent or, if consent is refused or no reply is given within 28 days, with consent from Ofwat. Sewers in...
Environment
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