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Wet, Wet, Wet
Building Local Resilience in a Changing Flood Risk Context
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Conference Chair
Cllr Neil Clarke, Rushcliffe Borough Council Chair Climate East Midlands
Alex Beresford from ITV Weather and Channel 4’s Britain’s Most Extreme Weather
Building Local Resilience
Lee Rawlinson
Environment Agency
24th September 2014
Building community resilience- the drivers
“Community resilience has an important role to play, both before, during and after the event and can complement the response of the emergency services”
Quote from Pitt review of 2007 floods
Bottesford- Rectory Lane- April 2012
Building community resilience- provide knowledge/ increase awareness
Building community resilience- provide support
Building community resilience- Adopt a partnership approach
Lisle Street- Loughborough Summer 2012- Burleigh Brook
Derby Rd/ Alan Moss Rd junction- Loughborough Summer 2012- combination of sources
For more information on setting up flood warden schemes or developing community plans to incorporate flooding:
Environment Agency contact- Richard Butcher-
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Prepared contact- Ian Smith
To access flood identity: [email protected] (please provide your name, organisation, telephone and email contacts)
Useful websites:U Gov: https://www.gov.uk/browse/environment-countryside/flooding-extreme-weather
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Prepared: http://www.localresilienceforum.org.uk/
Flood forum: www.nationalfloodforum.org.uk
Building community resilience- Next steps
Refreshment Break
Workshops(Delegates to attend one workshop)
Workshop 1 – Building Community Resilience to Flooding(Ferneley Room)
Workshop 2 – Lessons from Boston’s storm surge in December 2013(Suite 2)
Presentation for East Midlands Councils - 24th September 2014
The Problem
• Existing high flood risk: SoP 1 in 25 to 1 in 50.
• Properties at risk: 2,250 properties in a 1 in 100 annual chance event.
• Deteriorating assets: many flood defence assets reaching end of design life.
• Financial burden: increasing insurance premiums and potential clean up costs.
• No city investment: high flood risk means limited opportunity for riverside re-development
Our City Our River Masterplan
Defines re-alignment of new defences• Deliverability;• Environmental impact;• Urban design;• Reconnecting Our City with Our River.
Defences as part of new development• Encourages regeneration of City;• Reduces visual impact of 2m+ high defences;• Attracts private sector investment;• But…
Planning Sequential test & appropriate use.
Sequencing Impact on other areas & short term flood risk.
Economic climate Will development come forward? 20yr implementation period?
Management Ownership, inspection & maintenance access.
Our vision
‘Our City Our River is fundamentally about re-establishing a positive relationship between Derby and its river and ensuring the city remains a vibrant and attractive place for people to live, work and visit.’
Why is Derby different?
Proportion and quantity of partnership funding
Economic growth at heart of scheme
Making space for water
Defences delivered as part of new development
Long delivery and funding programme
Growth funding drivers
Regeneration in the floodplain
Benefits 1,450 residential and 800 commercial
properties protected
26,000 existing jobs protected
6,300 new jobs created
320 new residential properties
Delivery of WFD supporting objective
80 Hectares of developable land created
Key issues Funding
Third party dependencies
St Mary’s Bridge – proposed flood defence
Funding Complicated
FDGiA – Partnership Funding Calculator
Provision of the Central Government Growth Fund
Significant Shortfall to complete whole of the scheme
o Funding Strategy: £50m +
o Phasing of scheme to ensure early investment is cost-beneficial
o Opportunities for other funding streams
o Contributions from beneficiaries
Funding opportunitiesGovernment & European Funding• Single Local Growth Fund• European Structural & Investment Fund• Growing Places Fund• Regional Growth Fund
Beneficiary contributions• Supplementary business rates levy• Planning contributions• Direct contributions
Council role in development
Council led funding• New Homes Bonus• Developer contributions• Business rates retention• Prudential Borrowing
Third party dependencies
Risk of developers not coming forward to defined programme
o Development viability shortfalls included in scheme costs
o Developer FRM planning guidance
o Options for Council to acquire sites
o EA statutory powers working with Derby
o Positive discussions and progress on a number of development sites
Bath Street Mills
Outcomes
Reduction in flood risk
Sustainable and appropriate regeneration of city’s riverside
Promotion of local economic growth
Job protection and creation
Enhanced riverside amenity
Delivery of stakeholder aspirations
Contributions to WFD supporting objectives
Improved community engagement & awareness
Building Resilience: an SME perspective
Mark Issitt, Plantool Limited
Business continuity planning and severe weather
Janet Poole, Boots UK
Panel discussion
Economic consequences and opportunities arising from flooding
Conference Close
