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We cannot confirm Hartlepool Water's current position from its own published notice, so this page asserts nothing about it. That is deliberate: a wrong all-clear here would send someone out with a hosepipe under a restriction carrying a fine of up to 1,000 pounds, and a wrong restriction would cost them a brown lawn for no reason. Check Hartlepool Water's own notice, linked below, before using a hosepipe. Everything else on this page, the supply area, the exclusions, the penalties and the history, is stable information that does not depend on today's status.
What this site last recorded, on 30 July 2026, and which is what we can no longer stand behind today: Hartlepool Water is part of Anglian Water but has its own water resource zone, and Anglian Water's hosepipe ban explicitly EXCLUDES Hartlepool. No hosepipe ban applies here. Wastewater in Hartlepool is handled by Northumbrian Water, which also has no ban.
We could not confirm Hartlepool Water’s current status from their own page, so we are not asserting a restriction. Check with your supplier before using a hosepipe.
We are an unofficial tracker, so Hartlepool Water’s own notice is the version that legally applies to you.
Hartlepool Water supplies about 90,000 people in and around Hartlepool, covering the TS24, TS25, TS26 and TS27 postcode districts. It is the smallest supply area on this site by some distance, and the only one that exists here mainly to prevent a wrong answer: without its own record, those districts would resolve to Anglian Water and a Hartlepool household would be shown a restriction that explicitly does not apply to it.
The structure is genuinely odd. Hartlepool Water is part of Anglian Water, whose supply area is the East of England, 200 miles south. It has its own water resource zone, physically unconnected to that network. Sewerage in Hartlepool is Northumbrian Water's. So three companies appear on the paperwork of a town of 90,000, and only one of them supplies the water.
Source: Hartlepool Water
The sections on why a restriction was declared, and on what it restricts, are not shown here: with the status unconfirmed there is nothing verified to describe, and inventing it would be worse than leaving it out. Hartlepool Water's own notice is the authoritative statement of its current position.
If a Temporary Use Ban were in force here, breaching it would be a criminal offence. The maximum penalty is a fine of £1,000 on summary conviction, under section 76(5) of the Water Industry Act 1991. It is not a fixed penalty: Hartlepool Water cannot issue one and would have to prosecute. In practice companies publish an enforcement policy that starts with a warning, so a first breach realistically produces a letter.
Anglian Water's previous restriction was in 2012, and its notice of July 2026 is the one recorded here. What matters for Hartlepool is that the current notice excludes it by name and gives a structural reason for doing so, the separate water resource zone, rather than a discretionary one. An exclusion that rests on the physical shape of the network is a good deal more durable than one that rests on this summer's numbers, but it still has to be read off each new notice rather than assumed.
Source: Hartlepool Water
We could not confirm Hartlepool Water's current status from its own notice, so this site asserts nothing either way. Check Hartlepool Water's own notice before using a hosepipe.
Because we could not confirm it against Hartlepool Water's own published notice, and this site does not assert a status it cannot stand behind. A wrong all-clear costs a reader up to 1,000 pounds; a wrong ban costs them a brown lawn. Neither is acceptable, so it says so instead.
We cannot confirm Hartlepool Water's current position, so this page will not tell you either way. A watering can or bucket is safe whatever the status, because a Temporary Use Ban never restricts them. For a hosepipe, check Hartlepool Water's own notice first.
Up to 1,000 pounds, imposed by a magistrates' court on conviction under section 76 of the Water Industry Act 1991. It is not a fixed penalty: Hartlepool Water would have to prosecute, and starts with a warning.
Usually, but not automatically everywhere. Most companies exempt Priority Services Register customers and Blue Badge holders who cannot reasonably use a can or bucket, some automatically and some on registration. Hartlepool Water's own notice sets the wording.
Your water bill, on the water supply line rather than the sewerage line: in much of England and Wales those are two different companies. Hartlepool Water supplies hartlepool, covering the ts24 to ts27 postcode districts.
Because Hartlepool Water is part of Anglian Water, while operating a separate water resource zone 200 miles from the East of England network. Anglian Water's restrictions name Hartlepool as excluded for that reason. Your sewerage is handled by Northumbrian Water, a third company again.
The supply area is Hartlepool and its immediate surroundings, covering the TS24, TS25, TS26 and TS27 districts, surrounded by Northumbrian Water territory on every side. There is no county page for County Durham on this site, because a page here exists only where a supplier has a live or recorded restriction, and neither Hartlepool Water nor Northumbrian Water has one. The four districts resolve directly to this company rather than to Anglian Water, which is the whole point of the record.
4 outward postcode districts resolve to Hartlepool Water here, as primary supplier or as one candidate among several. An outward code is the part before the space: SO14, not SO14 3AB.
Source: Hartlepool Water
Source of record: Hartlepool Water’s own status page, last checked 30 July 2026. We do not publish a hosepipe ban on the strength of a news report; every status rests on a primary source.