This guidance tells you how to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
The following updates have been made:
– reordered the information,
– clarified when you need to apply for a consent to investigate a groundwater source,
– presented the application form information more concisely and made it clear when Part E is required,
– confirmed what happens after you apply for a licence,
– made it clearer where guidance on hydrological information is,
– moved the ‘trading abstraction rights’ information to its own webpage,
– moved the compliance and enforcement’ information to its own webpage.
Source: EA.