THE LONDON GAZETTE, 4xH DECEMBER 1997 13629 Public Notices Water will be impounded by an earth dam 3-5 metres high and the PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES object of the impounding works is water storage for conservation and agricultural use. The capacity of the reservoir will be 3,000 cubic In Parliament—Session 1997-98 metres. A residual flow will be maintained downstream at all times. A copy of the application and aay map, plans and other SHREWSBURY AND ATCHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at all reasonable hours, at Pitfields Farm, Blackham, Tunbridge Wells Notice is hereby given that application has been made to Parliament TN3 9UB between 6th December 1997 and 9th January 1998. in the present Session by the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Any person who wishes to make representations about the Council for leave to introduce a Bill (hereinafter referred to as "the application should do so in writing to the Environment Agency, Bill") under the above name or short title. Orchard House, Endeavour Park, London Road, Addington, West On or before 4th December 1997, a plan was deposited in the Mailing, Kent ME 19 5SH, before the end of the said period. Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords and at the K. B. Postlethwaite Private Bill Office, House of Commons and in the office of the undermentioned Chief Executive at The Guildhall, Dogpole, 1st December 1997. (4.83) Shrewsbury. Copies of the plan are available for inspection and copies or extracts therefrom may be made during all reasonable hours of the day at the said office of the undermentioned Chief ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Executive and at the offices of the undermentioned Parliamentary Notice of application to vary a licence to abstract water Agents. On or after 4th December 1997, a copy of the Bill may be inspected Take notice that P. G. Masterson, of Newton Abbot Races Ltd., and copies obtained at a price of 50p for each copy at the offices of Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 3AF, is applying to the Environment the undermentioned Chief Executive and Parliamentary Agents. Agency to vary licence serial number 14/46/03/0534 to abstract water Objections to the Bill may be made by depositing a Petition from River Teign at National Grid Reference SX 8661 7214 at against it in the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Newton Abbot Racecourse, Newton Abbot, Devon. Lords or the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons. The latest • The variation being applied for is variation in period of date for the deposit of such a Petition in the first House will be 6th abstraction to 1st March to 31st December in any year. February 1998 if the Bill originates in the House of Lords, or 30th A copy of the application and any map, plans and other January 1998 if the Bill originates in the House of Commons. documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at all Information regarding the deposit of such Petition may be obtained reasonable hours at Newton Abbot Racecourse between 13th from the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords or December 1997 and 12th January 1998. the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, or the Any person who wishes to make representations about the undermentioned Parliamentary Agents. application should do so in writing to the Environment Agency, D. Bradbury, Chief Executive, Guildhall, Dogpole, Shrewsbury Authorisations Officer (Devon), Manley House, Kestrel Way, SY1 1ER. Exeter, Devon EX2 7LQ, before the end of the said period. Sharps Pritchard, Parliamentary Agents, Elizabeth House, P. G. Masterson, Newton Abbot Races Fulwood Place, London WC1V 6HG. 26th November 1997. (481) 4th December 1997. (532) ENVIRONMENT AGENCY WATER RESOURCES ACT Notice of application for a licence to abstract water Take notice that South West Water Services Limited, of Peninsula House, Rydon Lane, Exeter, Devon EX2 7HR, is applying to the ENVIRONMENT AGENCY—SOUTH WEST REGION Environment Agency for a licence to abstract: Notice of application for a licence to abstract water 1. A quantity of water not exceeding 20,000 cubic metres per day, (approximately 4-4 million gallons per day) and up to a total of Take notice that the Cornwall Health Care Trust (Asset and Estate 1,820,000 cubic metres during the period 1st January to 31st Department), of Banham House, St. Lawrences Hospital, Bodmin March inclusive in each year at an instantaneous rate not PL31 2QT, is applying to the Environment Agency for a licence to exceeding 0-231 cubic metres per second from the River abstract water from a borehole at National Grid Reference 0504 Thrushel at Hayne Bridge in the parish of Stowford in the 6701, at Hospital Laundry Site, St. Lawrences Hospital, Bodmin. Borough of West Devon, at National Grid Reference SX 4165 The proposal is to abstract water at the following rates: 2-5 cubic 8668. No water shall be abstracted under this licence when the meters per hour, 60 cubic metres per day, 21-900 cubic metres per flow in the River Thrushel measured at Hayne Bridge Gauging year. The water will be used for non-potable supply to the laundry. Station is at or below 0-27 cubic metres per second (the A copy of the application and any map, plans and other prescribed flow). In addition only half of the flow in excess of documents submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at all the prescribed flow may be taken up to the maximum reasonable hours at the Laundry Manager's Office, between 4th instantaneous rate. December 1997 and 4th January 1998. 2. A quantity of water not exceeding 40,000 cubic metres per day Any person who wishes to make representations about the (approximately 8-8 million gallons per day) and up to 3,640,000 application should do so in writing to the Environment Agency, cubic metres during the period 1st January to 31st March South West Region (Cornwall Area), Sir John Moore House, inclusive in each year at an instantaneous rate not exceeding Victoria Square, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 1EB, before the end of the 0-463 cubic metres per second from the River Lyd at Colmans said period. in the parish of Stowford in the Borough of West Devon, at M. Summers, Utility Manager, Cornwall Health Care Trust National Grid Reference SX 3993 8506. No water shall be 24th November 1997. (545) abstracted under this licence when the flow in the River Lyd measured immediately below the abstraction point is at or below 0-901 cubic metres per second (the prescribed flow). In addition only half of the flow in excess of the prescribed flow ENVIRONMENT AGENCY-SOUTHERN REGION may be taken up to the maximum instantaneous rate. Notice of application for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of Further details of the application are: an inland water by means of impounding works (a) Water will only be abstracted from the points under 1 and 2 Take notice that Katharine Bridget Postlethwaite, of Pitfields Farm, above during the period 1st January to 31st March inclusive in Blackham, Tunbridge Wells TN3 9UB, is applying to the each year. Environment Agency for a licence to obstruct or impede the flow of (b) The purpose of the abstraction in each case will be to transfer a tributary of Kent Water at National Grid Reference TQ 4895 3915, water from the Rivers Lyd and Thrushel by means of an existing at Pitfields Farm, Blackham, in Withyham Parish, Wealden District. pipeline and discharge it into Roadford Reservoir to augment