Publication Plan November 2022

Comment

Representation ID: 4749

Received: 21/12/2022

Respondent: Environment Agency

We do recommend however that the following changes (previously advised) are made to the policy to strengthen it and bring it in line with the recommendations sections 10.3 and 10.2 of the 2019 Level 1 SFRA. The policy should state additional wording around:
- naturalising urban watercourses and open up underground culverts
- preventing development from taking place over or within 8m of culverted watercourses
- minimising flood risk on the site
- providing wider betterment in site specific flood risk assessments

It is imperative that references to 300mm above sea level are changed to 600mm.