§ Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government (1) if he will now announce the date for the Bewl Valley Reservoir Inquiry;
(2) what consultations he has had as to the convenient date and place to hold the inquiry into the Bewl Valley Reservoir.
§ Mr. GreenwoodThe Medway Water Board, the Kent River Authority and the Kent and East Sussex County Councils have been consulted but no firm arrangements can yet be made. Legislation is required to remove a doubt which arises on Section 27 of the Water Resources Act, 1963, and which affects this scheme. The question at issue is whether water undertakers who have not yet acquired the land needed for a scheme can in all circumstances make a valid application within the terms of the Section for a licence to abstract water.