British Gas Connections

NOTICE OF PROPOSAL TO GRANT AN EXTENSION TO A GAS TRANSPORTERS LICENCE

The Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (“the Authority”), pursuant to section 7(5) of the Gas Act 1986, hereby gives notice that it proposes to grant a licence under that section to British Gas Connections, whose registered office is situated at Charter Court, 50 Windsor Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 2HA. The extension, if awarded, will authorise the above-named to convey gas through pipes to any premises in the areas briefly described below and shown on maps previously submitted to the Authority. Areas: Hillingdon Hospital, Colham Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex The Drum, Phase 2, off Grahamsdyke Road, Bo’ness, West Lothian The Wong, Horncastle, Lincolnshire Bryndu Road, Llanidloes, Powys Coalpit Lane, Brereton, Rugeley, Staffordshire Chapter House, Gorefield Road, Leverington, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Houghton Road, Deneside, Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Eldindean Place 10, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian High Street, Scampton, Lincoln, Lincolnshire Newhouse Road, Perth, Perthshire Apsley Mills, London Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Renals Way, Calverton, Nottinghamshire Manor Road, Golcar, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Stafford Road, Former Trent Hospital, Stone, Staffordshire Alstone Lane, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Cargill Avenue, Maybole, Ayrshire Roundham Road, Paignton, Devon Highfield Way, Blackwood, Gwent Former Unigate Dairy, Ruxley Lane, West Ewell, Surrey Herrison Hospital, Phase 5 and 7, Charlton Down, Dorchester r/o 12 Nutfields, Sittingbourne, Kent Duntarvie Road/Boyndie Path, Boyndie Street, Easterhouse, Glasgow Badgers Holt, Doncaster, South Yorkshire Tycraig, Victoria Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire Harlands House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex Roding Lane, Buckhurst Hill, Essex Byron Street, Hucknall, Nottingham School Hill, Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey Station Road, Selby, North Yorkshire Manor Works, Airedale Street/Undercliffe Road, Eccleshill, West Yorkshire St Marys School, Friarage Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire South View, Gunters Hill, St George, Bristol, Avon Matamba Terrace, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Copies of these maps are available for inspection at the Office of Gas Supply at the address shown below. The Authority is of the opinion that the above-named applicant intends to carry on the activities which may be authorised by its licence under section 7 of the Act in the areas named, and that the granting of the licence will be calculated: (a) to secure that reasonable demands for gas in Great Britain are met, and (b) to secure effective competition in the supply of gas conveyed through pipes. Any representations or objections with respect to the proposed extensions may be made in writing and delivered to J Ricketts, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, Licensing Section, 2nd Floor, 9 Millbank, London SW1P 3GE, no later than 28 December 2001.