Notice

Environment Agency: application made to abstract (take) water

Updated 7 July 2014

This notice was withdrawn on

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

Applies to England

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An application has been made to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Environment Agency. The Environment Agency are required to give notice of this application.

The application is for for the renewal of two abstraction licences to abstract groundwater at Blakedown, Kidderminster.

Further details of the proposal are that:

  • water is abstracted from Sherwood Sandstone at NGR SO 88848 78647 to support levels in Pavillion Pool and Harbrough Hall Pool, on a tributary of the Blakedown Brook to support local ecology
  • abstraction can take place at a rate of 508 cubic metres per day to 83,347 cubic metres per year

Water is also abstracted from Sherwood Sandstone at NGR SO 87982 77999 to support levels in Ladies, Forge and Swan Pools, on a tributary of the Blakedown Brook to support local ecology. Abstraction takes place at a rate of:

  • 2,000 cubic metres per day
  • 240,012 cubic metres per year

Both licences expired on 31 March 2014; the Environment Agency is applying to reinstate the licences on the same terms.

1. How to view the application

A copy of the applications, maps, plans and any other document submitted may be inspected free of charge at the address of the Environment Agency at:

Riversmeet House
Newton Industrial Estate
Tewkesbury
GL20 8JG

During normal office hours (Mondays to Fridays, except bank holidays).

Summary details of the application are also available on the public register held at the Environment Agency at the above address.

2. Your chance to comment

Any person who wishes to make representations about the application must do so in writing, quoting reference numbers NPS/WR/012523 and NPS/WR/012524 to the Environment Agency at:

Permitting and Support Centre
Water Resources Team
Quadrant 2
99 Parkway Avenue
Sheffield
S9 4WF

Or by email to PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk

No later than 17 July 2014.

After expiry of the period for representations, the Environment Agency will be entitled to the grant of a licence which authorises the proposal which shall deemed to be granted, unless the Secretary of State, either in consequence of any representations made with respect to the proposal or otherwise, directs or requires an application to be made to him.

For further advice about making a representation, a leaflet ‘Making your views count’ is available free of charge on request from local Environment Agency offices. Any general enquiries about this notice can be made by telephoning 03708 506 506.

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