British Gas Connections

NOTICE OF PROPOSAL TO GRANT AN EXTENSION TO A GAS TRANSPORTERS LICENCE

1. The Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (“the Authority”), pursuant to section 7(5) of the Gas Act 1986, hereby gives notice that it proposes to grant a licence under that section to British Gas Connections, whose registered office is situated at Charter Court, 50 Windsor Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 2HA. The extension, if awarded, will authorise the above-named to convey gas through pipes to any premises in the areas briefly described below and shown on maps previously submitted by the Authority. Areas: Hindhayes Lane, Street, Somerset r/o 95 Guibal Road, London West Hill, Portishead, Bristol, Avon 11-21 Hill Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 9 Beckenham Road, Beckenham, Kent Cashes Green Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire Brettargh Drive, Lancaster, Lancashire Hexham Road, (Former Fewster’s Depot), Swalewell, Tyne and Wear Plots 23-26 Golf Close, off Greenway Drive, Littleover, Derby The Duke of Lancaster Public House, Lancaster Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire Whitefield Road, Speedwell, Bristol, Avon Mill Hill Tennis Club, Sylan Avenue, Mill Hill, London Sherford Camp, Queens Drive, Taunton, Somerset Royal Clarence Yard, St Georges Barracks North, Gosport, Hampshire St Georges Flats, Salehurst Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex Milner Road, Wirral, Merseyside Site at Trencrom Lane, St Ives, Cornwall The Crescent, off Mountsorrwell Lane, Rothley, Leicestershire Chessington Avenue, Bristol, Avon Brimbleworth Farm, Phase 5, St Georges, Weston-super-Mare, Avon Elmington Estate, London 97 Northchurch High Street, near Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire High Street, Chard, Somerset Mint House, Sharp Road, Kendal, Cumbria Muirton, Ainslie Gardens, Perth Guinness Trust Buildings, Fulham Palace Road, London Cowley View Road, Chapeltown, Sheffield, South Yorkshire Brazley Avenue, Poplar Avenue, Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire 24-31 Boundary Green, Manchester, Lancashire Trowbridge Road, Site F, Trowbridge Estate, London Electrolux Site, Oakley Road, Luton, Bedfordshire Site off Irvine Road, Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire r/o 57 Albion Road, Hounslow, Middlesex The Spinney, Mansfield Road, Farnsfield, Newark, Nottinghamshire Church Street, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire Adjacent Jack Warren Green, Newmarket Road, Fen Ditton, Cambridge 112-116 Bessborough Road, Harrow, Middlesex Ranmoor, Bonville Road, Altrincham, Cheshire Halloughton Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands Hastings Terrace Development, Shankhouse, Cramlington, Northumberland 43 Whitedown Lane, Alton, Hampshire Site at Wentworth Road, Barnsley, South Yorkshire Development at North Cliffe Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire Site at Gelligroes, Blackwood, Gwent The Ridgeway, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire The Avenue, Bishopton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire Bedford Road, Henlow, Bedfordshire Colehill House, Bishops Waltham, Southampton, Hampshire Former Sunlight Laundry, York Road, Newbury, Berkshire New Road, Underhills, Winscombe, Avon Blacksmiths Way, Coedkernew, Newport, Gwent Territorial Army Centre, Cobham, Surrey Brogdale Road, Ospringe, Faversham, Kent 46 a -50 Brooksby’s Walk, London Former Wonham House Hotel, Eastbourne Road, South Godstone, Surrey Field Fare Road, Lye, Stourbridge, West Midlands Land adjacent to 23 Leicester Road, Measham, Swadlincote, Derbyshire Chestnut Green Phase 2, Crewe Road, Alsager, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire Copies of these maps are available for inspection at the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets at the address shown below. 2. The Authority is of the opinion that the above-named applicant intends to carry on the activities which may be authorised by its licence under section 7 of the Act, in the areas named, and that the granting of the licence will be calculated: (a) to secure that reasonable demands for gas in Great Britain are met, and (b) to secure effective competition in the supply of gas conveyed through pipes. 3. Any representations or objections with respect to the proposed extensions may be made in writing and delivered to J Ricketts, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, Licensing Section, 2nd Floor, 9 Millbank, London SW1P 3GE, no later than 20 March 2002.