Projects

Norfolk Environment Food and Farming (Norfolk EFF) has members across Norfolk, as well as in parts of north Suffolk and south Lincolnshire.  For planning work, these are divided into groups based on Environment Agency catchments.  Our Planning Groups are for the: The North Norfolk Rivers and North West Norfolk management...

Following a Judicial Review, the Environment Agency extended its Ant Broads and Marshes restoring sustainable abstraction investigation to include other Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the Broads.  Currently water abstraction licences in the Bure, Thurne, Yare, Wensum, Waveney and Tud catchments are being assessed using the Environment Agency...

Funded with a grant from the Environment Agency “Water Resources (Chalk Streams)” programme, this project aimed to pilot water-company based water resource planning methods with a group of members in the Nar catchment. The River Nar is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and drains a chalk catchment...

For the National Framework for Water Resources (“National Framework”), the Environment Agency has funded a programme of work to develop local resource options (LROs) for meeting water supply needs in the agricultural sector. The projects, which are delivered by consultants employed by the Environment Agency, are for self-selecting groups of...

In June 2021, the Environment Agency published their “Ant Broads and Marshes Restoring Sustainable Abstraction Investigation and Option Appraisal Closure Report” (Closure Report). Following 5-years investigation and modelling, it recommended the revocation of “permanent” licences to abstract groundwater in the lower Ant valley, the refusal of applications to renew equivalent...

For the Lowland Agricultural Peat Water Discovery Pilot (LAPWDP) programme, we have been collaborating with project partners the Broads Authority, Cranfield University and the Norfolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) on the Broads Water Level Management project. This £150k project sought to explore water management issues arising from the...