For many years a number of councils in NSW at least would charge you a water rate or fee on your rates for water if you had the pipe past but non connected to your property.
This was eventualy stopped as people rightly claimed no other service made any such claim and it wasnt apparently legislated for.
Obviously you would have to get a solicitor check your specific area to see if any such legislation exists.
It could be like a covernment estate builders have on their Sale agreements or Council building restrictions to ensure each house is built to a specific value and form in an estate or area.
In some way it could be like the Rule/law that if a sewerage sytem is made available to an area, houses must connect to it and fill or remove septic systems depending on the local council requirements.
Also in NSW now, I understand you cannot install new or replace an electric Hot water service with an electric unit if Natural gas is available in the street, connected or not to the property.
Possibly one with a heat pump would be exempt from that requirement as woud be Solar Panels.
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