Explanatory note

This Order confirms (with a modification) a Scheme submitted by the Environment Agency for the abolition, on a date one month after the confirmation of this Order, of the Happisburgh to Winterton, the Lower Bure, Halvergate Fleet and Acle Marshes, the Middle Bure, the Muckfleet and South Flegg, the Repps, Martham and Thurne, the Smallburgh, the River Wensum, the Upper Bure, the Upper Yare and Tas, the Upper Nar, and the North Norfolk Internal Drainage Boards.

These boards are replaced by a new “Broads Internal Drainage Board” and “Norfolk Rivers Internal Drainage Board”. The eleven former internal drainage districts are amalgamated to form the two corresponding new internal drainage districts.

Maps of the eleven internal drainage districts amalgamated by virtue of the Scheme are available for inspection during office hours at the offices of the Environment Agency, at Kingfisher House, Goldhay Way, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough PE2 5ZR; Bromholme Lane, Brampton, Cambridgeshire PE28 4NE and Cobham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9JE.