...It pours.
As the old saying goes. It is the excessive storm water discharge rates that the council is worried about. Evidently, the large roof size is capable of catching more rain than is permitted to be discharged into the storm water drainage systems due to fear of flooding said systems.
So the standard solution is to install a retention water tank that acts as a storm surge buffer tank.
More details and information on detention and retention water tanks can be found here.
An exemption may be applied for (which we have done).
We are currently waiting a response from Hobsons Bay council.
Further information will be forthcoming, if not the biblical flood itself!
Some rain would certainly be handy! All the best with sorting this out.
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