Notice

Greenheath Farming Company Limited: application made to abstract water

Published 27 January 2023

This notice was withdrawn on

The consultation period for this application has ended. You can view current licences on the Public Registers.

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Details of the application

Greenheath Farming Company Limited has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence.

The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006.

The application is to vary licence serial number 6/33/46/*S/0169/R01 which authorises the abstraction of water from drains in Lakenheath Internal Drainage Board area near Lakenheath.

The variation applied for is to:

  • restrict abstraction to the reach between National Grid References TL 71780 85907 and TL 71556 85845, whereas the existing licence covers thirteen linked reaches in the same area;
  • change the period when abstraction is permitted from April to October to October to March inclusive;
  • increase the annual abstraction limit from 95,272 cubic metres per year to 250,000 cubic metres per year;
  • increase the daily abstraction limit from 2,036 cubic metres per day to 4,080 cubic metres per day;
  • increase the hourly abstraction limit from 127 cubic metres per hour to 170 cubic metres per hour;
  • increase the instantaneous abstraction limit from 35.3 litres per second to 47.222 litres per second;
  • change the purpose from ‘spray irrigation’ to ‘Filling a reservoir for subsequent spray irrigation’;
  • and to change the means of abstraction from ‘a mobile pump’ to ‘a pump’.

These changes would be to enable the use of a reservoir which the applicant intends to build adjacent to the abstraction reach.

How to view the application

Please contact us via e-mail or use the number below to arrange to see the application documents.

How to comment on the application

Send any representation about this application by email, quoting the name of the applicant and reference number NPS/WR/038041 to the Environment Agency by email to: PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk

By 24 February 2023.

For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506 506.

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