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Introduction and Overview

Introduction and Overview. Alan Rafelt Regional Strategic & Development Planning Team Leader. Making Space for Water. Making Space for Water. MSfW is a wide ranging programme to improve flood and coastal erosion risk management

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Introduction and Overview

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  1. Introduction and Overview Alan Rafelt Regional Strategic & Development Planning Team Leader

  2. Making Space for Water

  3. Making Space for Water • MSfW is a wide ranging programme to improve flood and coastal erosion risk management • The aim is to manage risks by a portfolio of approaches, so as to: - reduce the threat to people and property - deliver environmental, social and economic benefit, consistent with the Government's sustainable development principles

  4. Making Space for Water • Programme has been running since 2005 • 25 projects led by various organisations including: - Environment Agency, Defra, Communities and Local Government (CLG), Highways Agency and the Association of British Insurers.  • 19 are now complete. 

  5. Who does what?

  6. Environment Agency Strategic Overview • Flood Defence is now Flood and Coastal Risk Management • We have a Strategic Overview for: • Inland Flooding • Coastal erosion • Coastal Flooding • Our role in inland flooding is still evolving • Key aim of the Strategic Overview is to ensure sustainable long term management of flood & coastal erosion risk.

  7. Floods & Water Bill • Draft due to be published in April 09 • The Bill will: • Update, streamline & strengthen existing legislation • Address all sources of flooding • Clarify responsibilities • Create a simpler & more effective regime for FCRM • Due to pass into legislation in October 09

  8. Catchment Flood Management Plans

  9. Catchment Flood Management Plans • What are CFMPs? • How we developed CFMPs • The Final Plan • What next?

  10. What are CFMPs?

  11. CATCHMENT FLOOD MANAGEMENT PLANS (CFMPs) • CFMPs provide an overview of flood risk • Consider flooding from all sources (inland, including estuaries) • Provide information on current flood risk • Explain how flooding could change in 100 years • Outline our flood risk management policies and proposed actions

  12. CATCHMENTS

  13. CFMPs consider • Land use planning, • Rural development, • Agriculture, • Critical infrastructure, • Recreation, • Nature conservation and • Protection of the historic environment

  14. CFMP DEVELOPMENT • £2m, 5 Years • Plan Stages: Inception, Scoping, Draft, Final Plan • SEA • Public consultation after Scoping and Draft • Steering groups involved throughout • Habitats Regulation Assessments

  15. CFMPs influence and link with: • LOCAL & REGIONAL PLANS – SFRAs • SHORELINE MANAGEMENT PLANS (SMPs) • WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE • FLOODS DIRECTIVE

  16. CFMP within the Wider Planning Framework

  17. WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE CFMPs aim to reduce flood risk while delivering other benefits. These benefits include environmental objectives presented in River Basin Management Plans under WFD.

  18. Aim of CFMPs • Develop Policies that will help us decide the best ways to manage future flood risk. • Take into account Climate change, urban development and land use management • Defra and the Agency will use CFMPs to determine future FRM investment.

  19. Natural obstruction to flow?

  20. Flood Risk Asset?

  21. Is this the ideal?

  22. Public consultation • Constructive feedback from Partners eg NE, RSPB, LAs • NFU concerned that we are protecting wildlife but not agriculture • Most concerns relate to implementation of policies and actions • Perception that implementation will be costly • Willingness to be partners in implementation

  23. The Final Plan

  24. KEY MESSAGES • Flooding is a natural occurrence • Development needs to acknowledge flood risk • Legacy of past development in the flood plain • The plans relate to the catchment and not just flood plains • CFMPs are far sighted - up to 100 years • Must determine what is best for the catchment

  25. CFMP ACTION PLAN Implementing actions through partnership • Caravan & camping sites • Identifying risk to critical infrastructure • Appropriate use of flood plain (PPS25) • Influencing agricultural practices • Integrated Drainage plans • Reducing risk through awareness, warning, contingency plans

  26. What next?

  27. National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA) National Policy informs Facilitates ... Policy Planning Catchment Flood Management Plans (CFMPs) & Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs) Guides scope of ... Delivery Planning Plan to influence landmanagement AssetManagement Plan Water Level Management Plan Urban drainage plan* Strategy Plan (major change in risk eg type or location of defences) Flood Awareness Plan Flood Forecasting & Warning Plan EmergencyResponsePlan* Disaster RecoveryPlan* Plan to influence spatial planning & development Projects and Actions (examples include) Actions to influence change in land management Support SuDS partnership projects Asset maintenance projects Asset improvement & replacement projects Environmental enhancement projects FF & FW Service projects Incident planning projects Resilience & resistance projects Projects to support planning enquiries etc Achieves …. Sustainable Flood Risk Management Monitor & Review Reducing likelihood Reducing consequences

  28. What next? • Develop a regional 25 year plan – regional priorities • One to one discussions with major partners • Determine mutual benefits and timescales • Seek multiple opportunities (eg habitat creation, carbon sequestration etc) • State of the Nation Report

  29. A LIVING DOCUMENT • Monitor progress in achieving policies and actions • ‘Living document’ that develops as we improve our understanding of flood risk • Six year review

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