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Black Ditch, Hollesley - Water Abstraction Licence for Spray Irrigation Storage
What is happening?
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Water Resources Act 1991
(as amended by the Water Act 2003)
Notice of application for a full licence
to abstract (take) water
Sustainable Water Services Ltd 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 full licence to abstract water from Black Ditch, Hollesley, Suffolk, between National Grid References TM 36374 43658 and TM 36764 43890.
The application is to abstract water as follows:
• 324 cubic metres an hour
• 7,776 cubic metres a day
• 1,000,000 cubic metres a year.
The water will be used for spray irrigation storage.
Further details are: water will be abstracted all year from Black Ditch and transferred to off-stream reservoirs for storage prior to use for spray irrigation on agricultural land associated with four farms.
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/047769 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 30th October 2026.
For advice about how to make a representation call
03708 506 506.
Open to feedback
From
2-Oct-2026
To
30-Oct-2026
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