How is the scheme funded?

The scheme is funded by developers who require phosphate credits to satisfy nutrient neutrality conditions attached to their planning consents within the Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar catchment. When WCI upgrades a septic tank to a sewage treatment plant, the measurable reduction in phosphorus loading generates phosphate credits that can then be allocated to a developer’s planning mitigation. The homeowner pays nothing because the developer purchasing the credits is effectively covering the cost of the upgrade.