Stutton Brook at East Bergholt, Abstraction of Water

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Water Resources Act 1991 (as amended by the Water Act 2003)

Notice of application for a full licence to abstract (take) water The East Bergholt Estate Company Limited has applied to the Environment Agency for a licence. The Environment Agency is giving notice of this application, in accordance with Section 37 of the Water Resources Act 1991 and Regulation 6 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006. The application is for a new full licence to abstract from the Stutton Brook at East Bergholt, Suffolk at National Grid Reference (NGR) TM 08540 36221. The application is to abstract water as follows:

• 36 cubic metres an hour







• 864 cubic metres a day







• 40,000 cubic metres a year







• 10 litres per second







• between November and March inclusive in each year. The water will be used to fill a reservoir for subsequent spray irrigation.

Further details are: a lined storage reservoir of 40,000 cubic metres of water capacity will be constructed and centred around NGR: TM 08364 35993 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/WR/037480 to the Environment Agency at PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk by 20th January 2023.

For advice about how to make a representation call 03708 506 506