Programme
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Registration and Refreshments
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Opening Remarks from the Morning Chair
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The Regulatory and Policy Framework
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Update on UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) and implications for flood risk planning and management
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Outlining the objectives and implications of the UK National Infrastructure Assessment
Publication of the UK’s first national infrastructure assessment in July makes recommendations for ensuring the needs and priorities of the country’s infrastructure are met, including delivering a nationwide standard of flood resilience by 2050. This presentation will outline key features of the assessment in the context of local flood risk planning.
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Insight into the new National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy
The Environment Agency has taken a new approach to developing the latest FCERM Strategy, due to be published in 2019. The Strategy has been built in collaboration with the people and organisations who will play a role in delivering it or be affected by its actions. This presentation will look at what has been achieved to date, explore the benefits of the collaborative approach, and outline how the new strategy will shape FCERM looking forward to 2050.
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Audience & Panel Discussion
The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion around the current regulatory and policy framework for flooding and flood risk management in the UK. Delegates are encouraged to ask questions and share their own views on recent policy developments, including:
- Are they enough of a move in the right direction?
- What are the implications of these policies for Lead Local Flood Authorities?
- What else needs to be done to encourage a more proactive and integrated approach to flood risk management at a local level?
- Where should future investment in flood resilience and management be focused?
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Morning Refreshments and Networking
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Practical Solutions for Flood Risk Planning & Management
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Surface Water Management: A long-term outlook
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Lead Local Flood Authority: How we are dealing with Surface Water Flooding
- Outlining our approach to risk and strategies to support this
- Clarifying how we expect to see potential flooding risk dealt with in planning applications
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Water Company perspective: Managing flood risk through improving infrastructure resilience
- Detailing how and where investment is currently being targeted to improve flood risk management and sustainable drainage
- Outlining how drainage and wastewater management planning can help facilitate partnership working between water companies and LLFAs
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Q&A
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Lunch and Networking
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Welcome Back from the Afternoon Chair
Julia BeedenFlood Risk & Biodiversity Business Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council -
Moving from risk assessment to response on the ground – a city perspective of delivering adaptation
- Setting the context – cities like Greater Manchester have an increasing level of ambition around adapting to climate change impacts, particularly flooding
- Our emerging climate risk assessment – what is it telling us and what are we doing as a result (illustrated by GM’s flood risk and transport infrastructure work)
- Putting the ‘green’ into our ‘Green City Region’ – how we’re prioritising a nature-based approach that maximises the benefits the City gets from its climate adaptation efforts
- The need to act - our strategies need to drive action around our future climate risks and the spatial, funding and delivery challenges this presents
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NPPF: Examining changes to the management of flood risk in planning under the new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
- Assessing the impact of the requirement to assess “cumulative impacts of flood risk”
- To what extent could the new requirements have an impact on existing Local Authority Flood Risk Assessments and sites identified for development in Local Plans?
- implications of applying the exception test
- balancing flood risk with a pragmatic and commercial approach
- Exploring how the design, management and adoption of SuDs might be covered in future planning policy updates
- How can planning guidance be used to encourage a holistic approach to SuDs implementation, considering flood risk alongside water quality, biodiversity and community benefits?
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Considering flood risk as part of growth and development – approaches from the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford growth arc
This case study presentation will demonstrate how catchment scale approaches to flood risk reduction and strategic scale growth proposals create opportunities for both better development and improved flood risk management.
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Afternoon refreshments & networking
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Case Study: Eddington, North West Cambridge. Designing a SuDS solution to maximise its multi-functional role and the holistic benefits it can provide
Suzanne will provide a designer’s insight into how the drainage and landscape design was developed for Phase 1 of Eddington. She will discuss the innovative measures that have been incorporated within the SuDS and Washpit Brook to control the rate and volume of runoff, reduce potable water demand and reduce downstream flood risk.
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Innovations in building and infrastructure design to adapt to changing climates and mitigate flood risk
- Exploring approaches and technologies to withstand the impact of increasing storm intensity on the urban environment
- Retrofitting properties with Property Flood Resilience (PFR): Detailing possible retrofit solutions and where they could be employed:
- highlighting which type of PFR measures lend themselves more suitably to retrofitting
- implementing resilient design into properties
- solutions for reducing the cost of retrofitting properties
- Examining recent new industry standards for property resilience and flood mitigation
- What are the required next steps to attain a resilient built environment?
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Closing remarks from the Chair and close of conference
