You’ll by now have received a C4 detailed estimate from us and should have modified your scheme where possible to minimise any effect it has on our pipes and equipment. If you still intend to proceed with your scheme, you’ll need to send us a formal C5 notification of your ‘Intention to Proceed’.
This needs to be set out in a letter, which you can either email to the address from which you received your detailed estimate or send to us at:
Thames Water Strategic Partnering
Clearwater Court
Vastern Road
Reading
RG1 8DB
Your letter should confirm that, as the qualifying authority, you are claiming the cost-sharing arrangements, if applicable. You’ll also need to include:
Alternatively, you can place an order with us to secure the works, but in this case the costs incurred will be fully rechargeable.
Please note that the cost-sharing arrangements only apply to mains diversions and not to certain temporary diversions, relocations of fire hydrants, non-‘like-for-like’ or enabling works, or mains enhancements for building water and/or concrete batching.
For more complex schemes, or those involving multiple or distinct phases, we can provide periodic cost reports on request.
Once we’ve received your notice, together with payment/order, we’ll start producing contract documents and place orders with our contractors. We will provide our scheme drawings, showing how we’ll divert our pipes and where we intend to reconnect them, aligning with your scheme proposals where we can. We’ll then arrange discussions and co-operate as far as is practically possible to arrive at a programme that suits your timescales and ours.
Please note that our contractors will work under your health and safety regime to protect and move our pipes and other equipment. So, you'll need to let us know who will be the Principal Contractor under the Construction, Design and Management (CDM) Regulations.