Hosepipe bans in the UK

It depends on which company supplies your water, not on where your council is. Enter your postcode above and we will name your supplier and show its current status, with a link to the company's own notice. Where your postcode sits on a boundary between suppliers, we show every candidate rather than guessing.

Water companies do, under Section 76 of the Water Industry Act 1991. The formal name is a Temporary Use Ban, or TUB. Councils have no statutory power to declare one, and neither does central government.

Yes. UK supply boundaries follow historical infrastructure rather than postcode or council geography, so some streets sit on the boundary between two companies. The supplier named on your water bill decides which rules apply to you, regardless of what applies to your immediate neighbours.

The maximum is £1,000 per violation under Section 76. In practice companies usually issue a warning first and reserve financial penalties for repeat breaches after that warning.

Yes, with a watering can or a bucket. Those are never restricted. Drip irrigation and soaker hoses are exempt under most companies' notices, as is water you have collected in a water butt. What a ban stops is hosepipe and sprinkler use fed from the mains.

No. We are an independent tracker, not a water company or a regulator. Every status here links to the supplier's own notice, and that notice is the version that legally applies to you.

No. Your browser strips everything after the outward code before anything is sent, so only the first part of your postcode is ever transmitted, and we do not store full postcodes at all.