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Permit Issued by the Agency for the implementation of Fish Barriers

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 15th October 2021

Yesterdayy, the agency gave notice of their final public consultation using the Environmental Permitting Process. They couldn’t even get that right! https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/east-anglia-c-e/hoveton-great-broad-minded-to/ Whilst we and the Broads Angling community are staggered with the Agency’s recommendations. Their action has damaged an effective partnership that has been built over recent years and will destroy…

Hoveton Illegal Barriers Planning Submission

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 1st October 2021

Below is a copy of the letter I sent to the BA Planning Committee yesterday. It follows a further planning application from Natural England in an attempt to avoid enforcement action for the illegal installation of two pilled barriers on Hoveton Great Broad in Sept 2020. If you read the application you won;t find any…

Hoveton Great Broad Years on and Little Progress

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 3rd June 2021

https://basg.online/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HGB-campaign-8-video.mp4 This is the 8th of our campaign videos highlighting the plight of Bream in the Northern Broads and impact on it’s wider ecosystem. It reflects 2 years of challenge and attempts to change the policy of Natural England on this damaging project.

Hoveton Great Broad a year on the saga continues

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 19th May 2021

Some of the latest progress with the ongoing saga unfolding in the Broads. NE’s controversial biomanipulation project includes the erection of barriers in the broads to prevent access for bream. It does not include dealing with the sources and causes of pollution including sewage and agriculture. NE received planning permission for the scheme in 2016…

Hoveton Great Broad Consultation our Response to EPR Permit EPR3557SW

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 20th March 2021

Summary of the Issues and our objections with the permitting of Hoveton Great Broad Fish Barriers Please feel free to respond to the consultation at the link below before the 6th April 2021 https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/east-anglia-c-e/hoveton-great-broad-fra-permit/consultation/intro/ Issue 1 Under the Environment Permit Regulations, all material should be presented to the public as part of its consultation. The…

A mess from the start EA investigates Natural England over unlawful fish passes

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 14th January 2021

Reporter Conor McGlone gives a view on the developments at Hoveton Great Broad. The Environment Agency (EA) is taking enforcement action against Natural England (NE) for erecting two fish barriers without permits in the Norfolk Broads. In an email seen by ENDS, the EA said that the wildlife regulator had installed the passes at Hudson’s…

Court Papers Issued against EA and NE

Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 3rd October 2020

I can confirm today that BASG & AT have through Fish Legal served a high court submission for a Judicial Review against the Environment Agency and Natural England with regard to the Environment Agency’s (EA’s) decision to grant a Flood Risk Activity Permit (FRAP) on 23 July 2020 for fish barriers on Hoveton Great Broad…

Northern Broads Bream and its Ecosystem

Environment Group, Hoveton GBBy Kelvin Allen 26th August 2020

https://basg.online/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/campaign3-Mar-21_0.mp4 This is the second of our campaign videos highlighting the plight of Bream in the Northern Broads and impact on it’s wider ecosystem. Please click on the Petition below to register your objection. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334111

Hoveton Petition Launched to save our fish stocks

Environment Group, Hoveton GBBy Site Administrator 15th August 2020

Save our Fish Stocks – Petition launched to protect vital spawning grounds in the Norfolk Broads Angling, fishery and wildlife interests in the Norfolk Broads have come together to draw public attention to the extremely serious threat to fish stocks and the wildlife which depend upon them, as a result of the proposed fish barriers…

Hoveton Great Broad Impact on Northern Broads Bream Stock

Achievements, Hoveton GB, Latest NewsBy Kelvin Allen 9th December 2019

The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads has been famous for its ability to support a mix of ecology and recreation and take people out into nature for centuries. The tourism honey pot of Wroxham probably reaching the limits on the balance between people and nature. However you don’t have to travel far to find the other…

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