The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced the date for a public inquiry into Thames Water’s Water Resources Management Plan. The inquiry, which is expected to take place between 7 June 2010 to 8 July 2010, will also look at Thames Water's plans for its proposed £400M reservoir at Abingdon in Oxfordshire.
Although Thames Water put back its plan to build the reservoir from 2020 to 2026 in the light of revised downward demand forecasts, the company still intends pursue development of the scheme via the planning process to ensure that it can be activated when necessary.
The public inquiry into its Water Resources Management Plan is key to the process after Defra concluded that Thames had not provided “adequate justification” of its preferred options – including the reservoir - or the decision process in reaching that preferred programme of options.
The Planning Inspectorate’s initial estimate is that the inquiry could run for up to 12 days.
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