Old Alresford, Application To Vary Water Abstraction Licence

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

Water Resources Act 1991

(as amended by the Water Act 2003)

Notice of application to vary a full licence to abstract (take) water

John Arney 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 to renew and vary licence serial number SO/042/0032/008 which authorises the abstraction of water from underground strata comprising chalk at Drove House, Old Alresford, Hampshire. The licence authorises abstraction for two purposes, a ground source heat pump and domestic use.

The variation applied for seeks to add the purpose Animal welfare and watering, to increase the period of abstraction for the ground source heat pump to all year, and to increase licensed abstraction to the following volumes:

For the ground source heat pump

• 12 cubic metres per hour
• 288 cubic metres per day
• 80,000 cubic metres per year.

For domestic use and animal welfare and watering

• 1 cubic metre per hour
• 5 cubic metres per day
• 1,000 cubic metres per year.

The abstraction for the ground source heat pump is considered non-consumptive as the water is returned to the same source of supply within 24 hours.

Please contact us via email or use the number below to arrange to see the application documents.

Send any representation about this application in writing, quoting the name of the applicant and reference number NPS/WR/041121, to the Environment Agency, at the Permitting and Support Centre, Water Resources Team, Quadrant 2, 99 Parkway Avenue, Sheffield, S9 4WF or by email to PSC-WaterResources@environment-agency.gov.uk by 10th April 2025. For advice on how to make a representation call 03708 506 506.