Express Your Views on Improved Strategies for Managing Flood Risk

Residents are invited to share their views on documents containing policies that outline the Flood Risk and Drainage Solutions approach to flood investigations and regulating ordinary watercourses.  They aim to improve transparency and clarity about two key areas of work within Flood Risk and Drainage Solutions to manage the risk of flooding which could impact people and property, and to investigate when flooding does occur.
They cover the process used to decide whether investigations will look into the cause of a flood incident, and how activities that could impact the flow of certain watercourses will be overseen. As the lead local flood authority, there is a role in investigating the cause of many flood incidents, and regulating activities affecting ordinary watercourses,  a term which refers to passages of water including streams, ditches, drains, sluices and private sewers which flow into main rivers.