Environment Agency

WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE TO ABSTRACT WATER

Take notice that Mr. J. C. Gilford and Mrs E. J. C. Gunstone of 5 Newbury Road, Dalton Park, Ashurst, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, are applying to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract water from a borehole at National Grid Reference 4805/0968 at Mughouse Farm, Cobbs Brow Lane, Newburgh, near Wigan, Lancashire. The proposal is to abstract water at the following rates: 11 cubic metres per hour, 120 cubic metres per day and 15,000 cubic metres per year all year round. The water will be used for horticultural nursery. A copy of the application and any map, plans and other documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at all reasonable hours at 5 Newbury Road, Dalton Park, Ashurst, between 21st January 1999 and 21st March 1999. Any person who wishes to make representations about the application should do so in writing to the Environment Agency, PO Box 12, Richard Fairclough House, Knutsford Road, Warrington WA4 1HG. T. J. Broster, on behalf of Blair Drilling. 13th January 1999.