It can be very difficult for van drivers to find a required address for delivery.
The following is my plan of Moor Street Conservation Area in Rainham, Kent, England, produced in May 2011, which I then gave a copy to each of the houses with a request that they had a house sign erected close to the pavement of the A2 to indicate to van drivers where they were. Number 8 is not visible from the A2, so how does someone find it?

When Number 22 decided to build Numbers 18, 20 and 21 with planning notification perhaps affixed to a telegraph pole in South Bush Lane at what would be where the drive to numbers 20 and 21 would be built, Medway Council Planning Authority stated that only 3 houses could have drive access to the main road A2 to Newington. Therefore, Number 22 had to build a new drive to South Bush Lane instead of their old drive to the A2.

Number 14 decided to change a wooden shed into a habitable dwelling by installing a kitchen and bathroom as well as a bedroom etc. Thus Number 16 came into use by his daughter. Number 14 put Number 14 and Number 16 up for sale. The Land Register sent information about this to Medway Council to the Rates Department and the Planning Department. Having had no planning permission, the planning department put an enforcement notice on Number 16 in May. It was sold as an independent property in December of the same year. Before the new owners moved in the previous owner trashed it. The new owners who also bought Number 14 were upset and applied for planning permission and got it despite the rule that a drive to the A2 could not have more than 3 properties using it as now it was 4, despite my protest about Numbers 15, 17 and 18 having 1 rule and 12, 13, 14 and 16 having another.

Number 12 has had a new owner during the last 2 years and is being sold, with the following in its Estate Agent Description - "Another big benefit to this property is a separate parking area which houses a garage and a barn, which to the right person and necessary consents could easily become a useful outbuilding of some sorts."
 

Number 12 is split between 1 side of Number 13 (my property) and the other side where they own a garage and a building with a corrugated asbestos roof and what was a pigsty building alongside the Drive of Number 14 and property of Number 16 respectively, together with some land between them.
 

Some prospective buyers have thought that the building with its asbestos roof could easily be converted into another habitable dwelling.

If Medway Council then ignored it's own ruling of only 3 properties having access from 1 drive onto the main road because this would make it 5, then they could also ignore the facts that they allowed

• an unplanned building to be built, enforced against, sold and approved as Number 16 - Property 4 with permission to use my drive without my authority.
• as well as the condition put on Number 22 that before they built a riding area, that the baum of earth removed from a large area by their U-shaped stables in preparation to be used as a car park for new houses as a repeat of the same idea carried out by the previous owner of Number 22; be replaced from the edge of 1 of their fields, was ignored, even when I informed the planning authority.

The existing water supply and electricity supply is insufficient for a household, so where is the access? Under the drive? In which case, the water pipe and electricity cable would need to be in accordance with the Pipe Bedding and Trench Backfill Details in Standard Drawing No. HE/12 under the 450mm (18 inch) road construction for this 192 inch (480 cms) wide drive, which is in excess of 1200 inches (3000 cms) of length. The existing water supply to Number 12 would need to be relocated into the same pipe bedding. I would have thought they they would also require my permission to do that on my land.

It would need a cesspit - A cesspit is a sealed underground tank that simply collects wastewater and sewage. There is no processing or treatment involved. A septic tank could not be used because "installing a soakaway can be a challenge due to regulations on where they can be placed. They must not be too close to buildings, boundaries or watercourses, be away from electrical cables or pipework and not be part of a road, driveway or other area where vehicles could pass over it and cause damage." The same reasons would stop them either using my septic tank or the one at Number 15. The main public sewage drain for Rainham ends at Number 10. From that top of hill towards the Newington direction, all the remaining properties of Moor Street Conservation Area have to have a cesspit. Numbers 28 to 37 have sealed tanks above ground with a drive strong enough to take 2000 gallon wastewater tankers on a regular basis.
My existing drive would need to be replaced by the proposed owners of new Number 38 by a minor access road in order to take the extra weight on a regular basis including the depth of winter, before any building work was carried out. This would require excavating for the new wearing course - 80mm, base course - 30mm, roadbase - 50mm, sub-base - 290mm and capping layer for this minor access road in Standard Drawing No. HE/03 of about 270-320 cubic yards. My drive includes greater dimensions than required to provide car turning within site curtilage with my garage being the same top position as in the right hand diagram of Standard Drawing No. HED/03. The other users of my drive can only use the drive for access and not for parking or leaving any item on it for any time and this would include any pipe from a Waste-tanker. That would mean that that waste-tanker would have to drive over the drive and park on their land before extracting the waste from their cesspit.
 

The following comes from an article "Septic tank regulations - the whats, whys and wherefores " by UKDP - The UK Drainage Professionals:-

• Building Regulations 2010 – Drainage and waste disposal.
  This Building regulations document, produced by the Government, outlines the requirements for septic tanks, drainage fields, cesspits (or cesspools – it’s the same thing) and sewage treatment plants. The main aim is to make sure that they are:
  • Located in the right place
  • Sufficient in size for the property (or properties) connected to them
  • Not going to pollute local water courses
  • Appropriate for the local ground conditions – this is particularly important for drainage fields (or soakaway systems)
  • Emptied and maintained regularly to ensure that they can function properly
• If you are installing a new septic tank, sewage treatment plant or cesspool, you will need to contact your local Council to apply for Building Control approval. Similarly, undertaking works to your existing drainage system, particularly if you are looking to change the system somehow, also needs approval. This is because drainage is classed as a 'controlled service or function' which is why Building Control need to be involved.
   
• Cesspools (or cesspits)
  Generally speaking, a cesspool (which is just a holding tank for the waste from your property, providing no treatment) is seen as a last resort as far as a drainage system for your property goes.
  The basics from this document relating to cesspools are:
  • They should be located at least 7 metres from any habitable parts of buildings
  • They should be sited within 30 metres of a vehicle access point
  • The capacity below the level of the inlet should be at least 18,000 litres for 2 users. This should be increased by 6,800 litres for each additional user.
  • They should have no openings apart from the pipe coming in, access for emptying and ventilation
     
• Environment Agency PPG4 (Pollution Prevention Guidelines)
  In short, the PPG4 helps you to work out which type of drainage system is suitable for your property. There are lots of considerations as to what would work – and also what the Environment Agency (EA) will or will not allow. It also lets you know when you need to gain consent from the EA, as you often need to get permission before installing or changing an off mains drainage system.
  • The document goes into some detail about percolation tests and drainage field size. Percolation tests assess the porosity of the soil at your property, and it is this that tells you if a drainage field or soakaway is suitable, and if it is suitable it tells you what size it needs to be.
  • There is a very detailed and excruciatingly long British Standard document relating to exactly how percolation tests should be undertaken. Even the name of the document will put you off reading it – BS6297:2007+A1:2008.
    This document outlines the size that any septic tank, sewage treatment plant or cesspit needs to be in order to adequately serve the property (or properties) that will connect to it.
  • Each type of tank comes in various different sizes, and the correct tank size is determined by the number of bedrooms the property has.

The opening between my boundary hedge and their garage is about 6 metres. My turn round area extends past their garage. The distance from their barn to my boundary hedge opposite is about 14 metres. Currently their car is parked parallel to the barn beyond 7 metres from it. The remaining distance to my boundary hedges is used to turn their car round to drive out, since they do not have a right of access to the remainder of my drive and so have to use their own land to turn round in. The cesspit needs to be at least 7 metres away from the habitable dwellings at property numbers 13, 15 and 16, while still allowing for a waste-tanker to park within their land whilst emptying it or for other 2 x 4 metre vehicles (cars) to park and turn round. This could be very difficult to achieve within their land area.

A soakaway has to be created on their land to take up to a 2 inch (5 cm) downpour falling on the roofs (Building Regulations) of their buildings, since it unwise to direct that same rainwater into their cesspit.
 

When the new owner of Number 22 put forward plans to start the same process of moving stables, creating new buildings and following this by changing them to houses; he included a new external building for his children to play in with a toilet. Due to this extra toilet for his 3 children, his proposed planning application included a replacement cesspit, which according to the dimensions on the plan would take 90,000 gallons assuming it was only 2 metres deep - enough for 90 houses (Only 2 households use my septic tank, which is emptied once a year). I pointed out to Medway Council that this would require 45 tankers to empty and therefore those tankers would require a minor access road in the middle of their field to empty it. I also pointed out that since the cesspit was close to South Bush Lane and that the field sloped down to it, that car drivers might object to driving through the liquid sewage if the cesspit overflowed. The surrounding fields owned by Number 22 would be sufficient land for an extra 90 houses, if they kept on repeating the planning trick of building buildings and then changing them and the old stables to houses and new stables on a regular basis. I objected to the plan and provided a copy of my objections to all the other houses in the Conservation Area. This created enough other objectors for the approval of the proposed plan to be moved from the proposed plan's Planning Officer to the full Council Planning Committe. The proposed cesspit had by then disappeared and the revised plan was rejected by the Council.
New owners have continued to build more wooden buildings and extensions.

The corrugated asbestos roof would need to be carefully removed by experts.
It is in the existing curtilage of a Listed Building in a Conservation Area. This would mean Listed Building approval without any changes; to the external appearance of the building to the date when it was listed, not when it was built.
It is possible that this time, Number 13 would be informed about the planning application, instead of them being placed on a lampost or telegraph pole away from Number 13, and the first one knows about the approved plans of first changing 2 barns to holiday flats, then those and the stables to houses, then to larger houses and new stables was the builders moving in and building 18, 20 and 21, despite being next door. For some years I then paid to have a listing of every planning application made to Medway Council each week - I believe that is now online and further payments are not required to protect one's own property.

Although, when the Land Register digitised my paper-based Land Register, it donated one of my bedrooms to 2 Eastmoor Farm Cottages and it took £100 cost to my lawyer to get it back again, despite the fact that it was the Land Register who could not do their job.
The current position is that the independant Local Authority Medway can accept a shed converted into a habitable dwelling without planning permission, with illegal sewage drainage linkage to an existing cesspit tank and sold as a separate property, despite their enforcement orders. Then, they approved a planning aplication by the new owners to have the trashed kitchen and bathroom re-installed and so restored to being a separate habitable dwelling. Did they check that the cesspit next door was of a sufficient size to take the waste from the inhabitants in the 3 properties instead of the original 2?
This would mean that anybody could repeat that same trick in any property within Medway despite the following consequences:-

• A minor detail is shown by the article Drinking Water deprivation in Medway, England in the table to the extreme left. This indicates that with all the proposed new buildings in Medway between now and 2035, that about 30,000 people in them would have no access to water by 2035 according to the plans set out by Southern Water. Adding illegal ones to that would reduce the time period before Medway runs out of water for its new inhabitants. Replacing land with buildings and roads reduces the volume of rainwater that can be collected for use by humans as the rainwater falling on them goes into storm drains leading to rivers and thence the sea.
  This program of new buildings in excess of the infrastructure required to service them is continuing throughout the remainder of the area serviced by Southern Water.
  Each new building/road also reduces the area for plants to give us oxygen to keep us alive.
• My next door neighbours may not have been able to transfer from their original doctor at the other end of Medway to a local one. At the Health Centre that I frequent, it had 4 surgeries, yellow, blue, red and green. The green one closed in January and the other surgeries could not accept all those patients and my neighbours had to then go on a waiting list. Those surgeries are technically out of our Conservation Area locality and so do not have to accept us. There are no other surgeries which are suitably located to service Moor Street Conservation Area. My red surgery had some doctors retire in March 2019, they have not been able to replace all of them yet.
• There was a proposal to build 200 houses in the field opposite our house. We did point out at the time that there was only 1 primary school place left in the area. I have not seen any plans for new schools to service this increase in population.
  We also pointed out that since all waste sewage would have to be pumped up to the main sewage drain in the adjoining road, that it would be sensible to install a second pump with its own generator, so that this would prevent the sewage from overflowing into the railway cutting for trains from London to Canterbury and Dover; if the only 1 pump failed due to mechanical fault or loss of electric supply. The 200 house proposal was rejected. A revised one for 300 instead of 200 houses has now appeared.
• Being old and decrepid, I am no longer able to walk all that fast and so would shuffle along the A2 into Rainham. During rush-hours, I can beat the traffic to the second set of traffic lights - 500 yards from my house?
  Despite all the new building works, there does not seem to be a plan to convert the Lower Rainham Road into a dual carriageway, since the A2 and the M2 are the only other routes that take traffic East-West in Medway. When I worked in City Way in Rochester, it was quicker for me to drive up to the M2, along to Chatham junction and back down to City Way, 10 years ago, than it was to drive the direct route along the A2. Lower Rainham Road currently has both a speed limit of 20 mph, chicanes and traffic lights in order to slow the traffic down with the resulting tailbacks at rush-hours. Fairly soon with the breeding of traffic lights on the A2 running through Medway, Medway will be gridlocked for much of the day, as it is when there are problems on the M2 running alongside.
   

I have now worked out why Medway Council requires more houses to be built - maybe because some of the concrete used in the Medway Tunnel was the incorrect temperature, when it was laid. Within a few weeks after it had been laid, it formed hairline cracks and now massive pumps pump the fresh water in the ground coming through that damaged concrete; out into the river. If the pumps stop, then the tunnel would be flooded within a few minutes. I wonder if enough emergency manuals have been distributed to the various departments who would deal with this problem for the commuters within the tunnel. I wonder whether this fresh water might become available for Southern Water to use for the local population.