Environment Agency

WATER RESOURCES ACT 1991

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE TO ABSTRACT WATER

Take notice that Heygate & Sons of Snails Pit Farm, Cley Road, Swaffham, Norfolk are applying to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract water from a borehole into the chalk strata at National Grid Ref TF 7765 0688 at Warren Farm, Drymere, in the parish of Beechamwell in the district of Breckland in the county of Norfolk. The proposal is to abstract water at the following rates: 81.8 cubic metres per hour, 1,636 cubic metres per day, and 150,000 cubic metres per year between 1 April and 31 October each year.
The water will be used for direct spray irrigation and filling of a lined reservoir for subsequent irrigation use. This being an application to renew without any changes licence serial no 6/33/49/G/57, which expires in October 2005.
A copy of the application and any maps, plans and other documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at all reasonable hours at The Farm Office, Snails Pit Farm, Cley Road, Swaffham, Norfolk between 22 February 2005 and 23 March 2005.
Any person who wishes to make representation about the application should do so in writing the the Environment Agency, Bromholme Lane, Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 4NE before the end of the said period.
T Freezer, (A J Freezer Water Services Ltd), on behalf of Heygate & Sons.
11 February 2005.