Issue - meetings
Local Flood Management strategy
Meeting: 23/03/2017 - Executive (Item 378)
378 Local Flood Management strategy PDF 179 KB
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Decision:
AGREED RECOMMENDATIONS
Reasons for decision – as specified in the report
Other options considered – none
Conflicts of interest / dispensations granted – none.
Minutes:
Councillor Richard Greening asked if the council
could identify a resource to assist residents and businesses
affected by the burst water main in Upper Street last December in
progressing their insurance claims with
Thames Water, who expressed a willingness to make interim payments
but have not delivered any.
Councillor Webbe supported the sentiments expressed by Councillor
Greening, but advised that the Local Flood Management Strategy
currently under consideration was a statutory requirement and the
legislation excluded flooding as a result of burst water mains from
the strategy. Councillor Watts
expressed his disappointment that Thames Water were not living up
to promises made to residents and would discuss resource
availability with the Executive Member and Angel BID. Councillor Watts added that the legal
responsibility was with Thames Water, but the council and its
partners would do what it could to hold them to account.
RESOLVED:
That the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy be approved and
authority to make subsequent amendments and reviews be delegated to
the Corporate Director of
Environment & Regeneration be agreed.
Reasons for decision
– to meet the statutory requirement to produce a Local Flood
Management Strategy under the Flood Risk Regulations 2009
Other options considered – none other than as specified in the report
Conflicts of interest / dispensations granted – none.