Found this article on HaYoo regarding exemptions during the hosepipe ban, just thought it would be of help to anyone concerned about their garden/veg..
Exemptions
There are exceptions to the rule. You're immune to the restrictions if you are:
- using a hosepipe in a garden or for cleaning walls or windows of domestic premises, paths or patios, a private leisure boat or an artificial outdoor surface, where such use is necessary for health and safety reasons.
- a person with severe mobility problems who hold a current Blue Badge as issued by your local authority. You won't be prohibited from using a hosepipe to water a garden attached to a domestic dwelling, plants on domestic premises, or allotments where you are the tenant.
- using a hosepipe to clean a private motor vehicle, walls and windows of domestic premises, or paths, patios and other outdoor surfaces where this is done as a service to customers in the course of a business.
- using a hosepipe to water an area of grass or artificial outdoor surfaces used for sport or recreation, where this is required in connection with a national or international sports event.
- you are using a drip or trickle irrigation watering system, fitted with a pressure reducing valve and a timer, that place water drip by drip directly onto the soil surface or beneath the soil surface,without any surface run off or dispersion of water through the air using a jet or mist.
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