Decision details

Purpose of Report: City of York Council are working closely with the Environment Agency in the development of flood risk management schemes across the city, updates from both organisations will be brought to the Executive Member for further consideration and recommendation.

The Executive Member is asked to consider the updates detailed in the report and any supporting presentations, comment their content and recommended actions.

Resolved:           (i)      That the update report and the information provided by the Environment Agency (EA) at the session be noted.

Reason:              To confirm that the Executive Member is updated on the progress of the flood risk management works programmes in York and is able to provide advice to ensure that wider links and opportunities are considered and built into the process.

                             (ii)      That information on the following be included in the next quarterly update:

·        scientific evidence detailing potential approaches for new telemetry, monitoring and forecasting that can be used to support catchment scale flood risk interventions (action 2 in Annex 2)

·        work being carried out to identify changes to the location of Silver Command in future flood events (action 31);

·        work being done by Category 2 Responders (the utilities) to ensure the recommendations in the York Flood Inquiry and the National Flood Resilience Review have been considered and auctioned;

·        information detailing the EA’s proposals for each flood cell across the city and the methodology used to identify these measures, to be considered alongside the programmes requested in the body of the report.

Reason:              To ensure that the update addresses issues raised by the Executive Member at the session.