Environment Agency—North East Region

WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE TO ABSTRACT WATER

Take notice that Dales Water Services Ltd, Witherick Lane, Melmerby, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 5JB, on behalf of H. Featherstone and Sons, Grange Farm, Holme Road, Shiptonthorpe, York YO43 3PZ, is applying to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract water from a borehole in the Sherwood Sandstone at National Grid Reference point SE 7659 4694, at Warren House Farm, Wapplington, in the Parish of Allerthorpe, within the Unitary Authority of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The proposal is to abstract water at the following rates: 55 cubic metres per hour, 1,028 cubic metres per day, 45,000 cubic metres per year. The water will be used for spray irrigation of arable crops. This application seeks to replace an existing licence which expires on 30th September 2000, and includes a reduction in the annual quantity previously authorised to be abstracted. A copy of the application and of any map, plans or other documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at all reasonable hours, at The Pocklington Post Ltd, Office, 2 Railway Street, Pocklington, York YO42 2QZ, between 15th June 2000 and 15th July 2000. Any person who wishes to make representations about the application should do so in writing to the Environment Agency, North East Region, Dales Area, Coverdale House, Aviator Court, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4GZ, before the end of the said period. B. Simpson, on behalf of H. Featherstone and Sons 15th June 2000.