West Sussex Flood Risk Partnership Application for Ordinary Watercourse Land Drainage Consent: Guidance Notes [1b] Introduction Please follow this guidance to help Please read through these guidance notes and the avoid delays in your application. application form carefully before you fill in the form. If you are not sure about anything in Contents these guidance notes, contact us using the 1. About you, the applicant details at the end of these guidance notes. 2. Your address 3. Agent or Consultant contact details These guidance notes give you information to 4. Interest in the Land help you fill in your application for Ordinary 5. Location of Work Watercourse Land Drainage Consent. 6. Description and Purpose of Work 7. Plans and Sections Before completing this form you are recommended 8. Construction Details to contact us for advice on your proposal. Under 9. Environment Agency Interests the Land Drainage Act 1991, you need consent if 10. Planning Approvals you want to construct a culvert or other structure 11. Maintenance of Structure that may affect the flow within any ordinary 12. Effects on the Environment watercourse. 13. Fees 14. Checklist For applications made under the Land 15. Declaration Drainage Act there is a charge of £150 for each structure or operation. 1 About you, the applicant 1.2 Applications from individuals Please tick one box to indicate the type of applicant you are. Fill in this section if you would like to apply as Then: an individual. Give us your full name. The if you are applying as a company, go name you give will be the name on any Land straight to section 1.1; Drainage Consent we grant. if you are applying as an individual, go straight to section 1.2 ; Once you have filled in this section, go to if you are applying as a group of section 2. individuals, go straight to section 1.3; or if you are applying as a public body, go 1.3 Applications from groups of straight to section 1.4. individuals 1.1 Applications from companies Fill in this section if you would like to apply as a charity, group of individuals, club or Fill in this section if you would like to apply for partnership. Land Drainage Consent as a registered Tick the relevant box and tell us the name of company. To apply as a company, you must your group. be a company formally registered with The name you give will be the name Companies House. Any Land Drainage registered on any Land Drainage Consent we Consent obtained will be in the company grant. If you are a limited liability partnership, name registered with Companies House. please give us the full name, position, address You will need to give us your company name, and contact details of your group’s main as registered with Companies House, address, representative. your company registration number, and the full name of the company director. Once you have filled in all parts of this Once you have filled in this section, go to section, go to section 2. section 2. West Sussex Flood Risk Partnership – Please contact your Local Authority Land Drainage Team 1.4 Applications from public It is important that you accurately describe bodies the proposals for the application being made. Please tell us the purpose of the works and Fill in this section if you would like to apply the number of structures you need consent as a public body such as a local authority or for. an NHS trust. Please give us the full name of the public 7 Plans and Sections body. The name you give will be the name registered on any Land Drainage Consent we To consider your proposals we need to grant. receive plans and drawings, drawn by a Please specify what type of public body you competent engineer or surveyor and showing are. Ordnance Datum Newlyn (the height above Once you have filled in all parts of section sea level). 1.4, go to section 2. You need to provide three copies of all relevant drawings. The drawings must be no 2 Your address larger than A0 size, and they need to include the following; If you are applying as an individual, group of individuals or public body you must fill in this Location Plan section. You must give us your full UK address. The address you give here will be This must be at an appropriate scale and be the address your Land Drainage Consent will based on an Ordnance Survey map. It must be registered to and will be shown on any clearly show the general location of the site Land Drainage Consent we grant. where the proposed work will be carried out and include general features and street 3 Agent or Consultant contact names. It must also identify the watercourse details or other bodies of water in the surrounding area. This section is only to be filled in if you have Site Plan (general arrangement) nominated someone other than the person named on any Land Drainage c onsent (for You must provide a plan of the site showing: example, a consultant or agent). You need to The existing site, including any watercourse, give us your or the relevant person’s full your proposals, the position of any structures name, address and contact details. which may influence local river hydraulics, including bridges, pipes and ducts, ways of 4 Your Interest in the Land crossing the watercourse, culverts and screens, embankments, walls, outfalls and so We need to know what interest you have in on; and existing fish passes or structures the land where the works will be carried out intended to allow fish to pass upstream and (for example, whether you are the landowner downstream; or tenant). If any work will be carried out on The plan should be drawn to an appropriate land that you do not own, you will need scale, which must be clearly stated. permission from whoever owns the land. Cross Sections 5 Location of the Proposed Works Where works encroach into any watercourse, you should provide cross sections both We need to be able to easily identify where upstream and downstream of the proposed the proposed works will be carried out. works. Cross sections should be drawn as if Please give details of: looking downstream on the watercourse and The location of the site (including a should include details of existing and plan clearly showing the location); proposed features and water levels. The name of the watercourse (if known); The National Grid Reference (to 12 Longitudinal sections figures) Longitudinal sections taken along the centre 6 Description and purpose of the line of the watercourse are required. These proposed works. must show the existing and proposed features including water levels, bed levels West Sussex Flood Risk Partnership – Please contact your Local Authority Land Drainage Team and structures. They should extend both consents from the Environment Agency upstream and downstream of the proposed before you start work work. You should make sure that you have enough time to get all approvals you need before you Detailed drawings start work. If you don’t, this could delay the work. These are to show details of the existing and proposed features such as the following: 10 Planning Approvals Pipe sizes and gradients where Please provide details of any planning applicable permissions you may have or are applying The materials to be used for any for that relates to this proposal. structures. The location of any proposed service 11 Maintaining the Structure pipes or cables which may affect the future maintenance of the We need to know who will be responsible for watercourse. maintenance both during construction work Details of any tree, shrub, hedgerow, and after the work has finished. pond or wetland area that may be affected by the proposed works. 12 Effects on the environment Details of any planting or seeding. Dams and weirs. (We need a plan The Environment Agency has a legal duty to showing the extent of the water impounded (held back) under normal protect and improve the environment, so we and flood conditions so that we can must consider the environmental effects of your proposal assess the possible effect on land You may need to carry out an environmental next to the watercourse. The plan must also show any land drains to be appraisal to assess the effects of your work. affected.) You should contact us before you send us your application so that we can give you advice on this. If you don’t, your application 8 Construction details could be delayed. You need separate consents for the The environmental appraisal should identify permanent works and any temporary works all likely effects on the environment. You that do not form part of the permanent should consider the direct and indirect effects works. Temporary works could include, for the work has on sites and features of interest example, cofferdams (watertight enclosures) and species of particular value. across a watercourse, or temporary diversions of water while work is carried out. Include any specific measures you plan to For any temporary work, we need to know keep disruption to a minimum and reduce how you are proposing to carry out the work. any unwanted effects while the work is being So you need to send us a “method carried out. statement” that includes details of the Set out any opportunities for you to improve specific measures you plan to take to keep the environmental value of the site. This may disruption to a minimum and reduce any include creating water features, planting unwanted effects while the work is being trees and shrubs that would normally grow carried out.