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Meeting: 08/03/2017 - Cabinet (Item 166)

166 Flood Risk Management Action Plan 2017/18 pdf icon PDF 452 KB

Report of the Head of Planning, Environment & Transportation (PTE/17/15) seeking approval of Plans and Programmes for 2107/18, attached

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Minutes:

(Councillors Brazil, Julian and Westlake attended in accordance with Standing Order 25(2) and spoke to this item).

                 

The Cabinet considered the Report of the Head of Planning, Transportation and Environment(PTE/17/15) (i) outlining progress with the delivery of the 2016/17 Action Plan and individual schemes contained therein and (ii) seeking approval to the proposed 2017/18 programme of £1,500,000 and the related action plan prepared in line with the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for Devon (developed and approved previously following public consultation in April 2014) incorporating also a new grant scheme to support property level resilience matters.

 

In summarising the range of practical works and studies undertaken or commenced during 2016/17 (Appendix I to Report PTE/17/15) the Head of Service’s Report anticipated that the current year’s budget would be fully allocated. Moreover the demand upon the Council as Lead Local Flood Authority and statutory consultee in responding to local planning authorities for all major development had far exceeded expectations, with 550 responses required in 2015/16 and 750 to date in 2016/17 against an estimate of 400 applications per year.

 

Members noted and welcomed the fact that the works delivered by the  County Council and through continued partnership working with the Environment Agency and District Councils would benefit in excess of the 300 properties anticipated in the Plan.

 

Officers confirmed that, as normal, full consultations would take place on proposed schemes including residents, community groups, local Councils and Councillors and relevant risk management authorities. All schemes would necessarily be subject to relevant Impact and Environmental Assessments (alongside the Local Strategy) to ensure that due regard would be given to any environmental and equality matters and, in the case of the latter, to ensure the Cabinet might have full regard to the responsibilities placed upon it to exercise its Public Sector Equality Duty under s149 of the Equality Act 2010, where relevant. All schemes were necessarily designed to improve the protection afforded to properties and communities from flooding and was therefore axiomatic that such schemes would have positive beneficial effects not only in physical terms but also in  terms of and health and wellbeing.

 

The matter having been debated and the options and/or alternatives and other relevant factors (e.g. financial, sustainability, risk management, equality and legal considerations and Public Health impact) set out in the Head of Service’s Report and/or referred to above having been considered:

 

It was MOVED by Councillor Hughes, SECONDED by Councillor Hart and

 

RESOLVED that approval be given to the implementation of the 2017/18 Programme and Flood Risk Management Action Plan and the Head of Planning, Transportation and Environment be authorised in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Highway Management and Flood Prevention to make any changes to the programme and related expenditure of less than £50,000.

 

[NB: A copy of the Devon Local Flood Risk Management Strategy and any Strategic Environmental Assessments and/or Impact Assessments will be available on the Council’s website at: www.devon.gov.uk/floodriskstrategy.



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