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Public Notices 12424 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 23RD JULY 1992 Public Notices in the Parish of Littleport, in the District of East Cambridgeshire, in WATER RESOURCES ACT the County of Cambridgeshire, from main drains and farm ditches. The water is required for spray irrigation of arable crops. NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY-ANGLIAN REGION Further details of the application are: The application is for the renewal of Licence No. 6/33/26/198/8) (incorporating Licence No. Notice of application for a licence to abstract water 6/33/40/28/10 and Licence No. 6/33/47/68/8). There is to be no Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the change in abstraction rates, or quantities nor in abstraction sections National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region, by W. I. Butcher & or areas of land to which water is to be applied. Sons, Fourth Drove, Little Bownham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a A copy of the application and of any map, plan or other document licence to abstract 22,730 cubic metres of water per year between 1 st submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at 41 Fore Hill, April and 30th September in any year from main drains and farm Ely, Cambridgeshire, at all reasonable hours during the period dykes adjoining land in our occupation at Downham Common, beginning 25th July 1992 and ending 22nd August 1992. Black Bank Drove, First Drove, Third Drove, Fourth Drove, Fifth Any person who wishes to make representations about the Drove, Sixth Drove and Seventh Drove, all in the Parish of Little application should do so in writing to the Environmental Manager, Downham, in the District of East Cambridgeshire, in the County of National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region, Bromholme Lane, Cambridgeshire. The water is required for spray irrigation of arable Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 8NE, before the end crops. of the said period. The application is for the replacement and amalgamation of Licence No. 6/33/26/221/9 (incorporating Licence No. /. C. Smith, for J. C. Smith (Consultants), on behalf of E. W. 6/33/26/113/1) and Licence No. 6/33/26/252/9, (incorporating Kerridge. Licence No. 6/33/36/131/2) with additional land and abstracton 15th July 1992. (745) points, and for an increase from 14,160 cubic metres to 22,730 thousand cubic metres in the yearly rates of abstraction. There is to be no change in the daily and hourly abstraction rates. A copy of the application and of any map, plan or other document NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY-ANGLIAN REGION submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at 41 Fore Hill, Ely, Cambridgeshire, at all reasonable hours during the period Notice of application for a licence to abstract water beginning 25th July 1992 and ending 22nd August 1992. Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the Any person who wishes to make representations about the National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region by Mr. P. J. Harrison, application should do so in writing to the Environmental Manager, 2c Tower Road, Little Downham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a licence National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region, Bromholme Lane, to abstract 12,000 cubic metres of water per year between 1st April Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 8NE, before the end and 30th September in any year from main drains and farm dykes of the said period. adjacent to land in his occupation at Byall Fen Drove and Old Lynn /. C. Smith, for J. C. Smith (Consultants), on behalf of W. I. Drove in the Parish of Little Downham in the District of East Butcher & Sons. Cambridgeshire in the County of Cambridgeshire. The water is 15th July 1992. (746) required for spray irrigation of arable crops. A copy of the application and of any map, plan or other document submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at 41 Fore Hill, NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY-ANGLIAN REGION Ely, Cambridgeshire at all reasonable hours during the period beginning 25th July 1992 and ending 22nd August 1992. Notice of application for a licence to abstract water Any person who wishes to make representations about the Notice is hereby given that applications are being made to the application should do so in writing to the National Rivers Authority, National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region, by F. H. Harrison & Anglian Region, Bromholm Lane, Brampton, Huntingdon, Son, Elderberry Farm, Burnt Fen, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP28 Cambridgeshire PE18 8NE before the end of the said period. 8EG, for a licence to abstract 41 cubic metres per hour, 491 cubic metres per day and 18,200 cubic metres per year, between April and J. C. Smith, for J. C. Smith (Consultants), on behalf of Mr. P. J. the end of September annually, from Burnt Fen internal drainage, Harrison. board drains and ditches at Elderberry Farm, in the Parish of 15th July 1992. (744) Mildenhall, in the District of Forest Heath District Council, in the County of Suffolk. This application is to renew licence No. 6/33/39/209/5 with no changes. NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY-ANGLIAN REGION The water is required for spray irrigation. A copy of the application and of any map, plan or other document Notice of application for a licence to abstract water submitted with it may be inpsected, free of charge, at R S T Irrigation Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the Ltd., The Irricentre, Sedge Fen, Lakenheath, Suffolk IP27 9LF, at National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region by Mr. P. M. Harrison, all reasonable hours during the period beginning on 24th July 1992 Wayhead Farm, Wayhead, Coveney, Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a and ending on 24th August 1992. licence to abstract 28,700 cubic metres of water per year between 1st Any person who wishes to make representations about the April and 30th September in any year from Littleport & Downham application should do so in writing to the Environmental Manager, Internal Drainage Board main drains and farm dykes adjacent to National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region, Bromholme Lane, land in his occupation at Old Lynn Drove, Downham Hythe Drove, Brampton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE18 8NE, before the end Byall Fen Drove and Land Floods Drove, all in the Parish of Little of the said period. Downham in the District of East Cambridgeshire in the County of W. G. Smith, R S T Irrigation Ltd., on behalf of E. H. Harrison Cambridgeshire. Water is required for spray irrigation of arable &Son. crops. 13th July 1992. (721) A copy of the application and of any map, plan or other document submitted with it may be inspected, free of charge, at 41 Fore Hill, Ely, Cambridgeshire at all reasonable hours during the period NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY-ANGLIAN REGION beginning 25th July 1992 and ending 22nd August 1992. Any person who wishes to make representations about the Notice of application for a licence to abstract water application should do so in writing to the National Rivers Authority, Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the Anglian Region, Bromholm Lane, Brampton, Huntingdon, National Rivers Authority, Anglian Region, by E. W. Kerridge, Cambridgeshire PE18 8NE before the end of the said period. Cross Bank Farm, Burnt Fen, Ely, Cambridgeshire, for a licence to abstract 14,500 cubic metres of water per year between 1 st April and /. C Smith, for J. C. Smith (Consultants), on behalf of Mr. P. 31st October in any year between N.G.R. TL534895-TL534894, M. Harrison. TL639859-TL639853, TL576880-TL578879, TL575879-TL575878, 16th July 1992. (743).
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