ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003) Notice of application for a transfer licence to abstract (take) water for a previously exempt abstraction

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003) Notice of application for a transfer licence to abstract (take) water for a previously exempt abstraction The Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence to abstract water.

The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application

In accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act

1991 and Regulation 8 of The Water Abstraction

(Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017.

The application is for a licence to abstract (take) water from

the River Frame at National Grid Reference SO 81467

04600 to transfer it to the Stroudwater Canal at Ryeford

sluices without intervening use.

Abstraction will take place all year.

Further details are: the transfer is to maintain water levels

in the Stroudwater navigation canal.

We are following Government advice to manage the

risks of Coronavirus to our organisation, to protect the

health, safety and wellbeing of our staff and sustain

our critical operations. As a result, please contact us

via e-mail or use the number below to arrange to see the

application documents.

Send any representation about this application by email, quoting the name of the applicant and reference number NPS/NA/001597 to the Environment Agency at:

by 18th November 2020.

For advice about how to make a representation, please call 03708506506.