Issue details

Purpose of Report: The Council is required to produce a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy under Section 9 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. In consultation with flood risk management partners a draft strategy has been produced. Following Cabinet approval of this, it will be subject to public consultation and final Cabinet approval.

Members are asked to give approval of the draft strategy to enable public consultation to commence.

This report has been slipped to the November Cabinet because the draft Flood Risk Management Strategy requires internal and external consultation to be carried out and the results incorporated into the document to be taken to Cabinet. It is intended to discuss the draft in a workshop format to bring together all interested parties. While the writing of the draft is progressing well it will not be possible to set up a workshop in the timescale required by the Cabinet process, which is further aggravated by the summer holidays. In order to ensure that a robust document can be presented to Cabinet it is requested that the item be slipped to the November meeting, by which time satisfactory consultation will have been achieved. There is no statutory deadline for the production of the strategy and minimal risk to the Council in delaying its production.

Due to a high volume of business scheduled for 5 November meeting, CMT agreed in conjunction with officers that this item can be deferred to 3 December meeting.

The decision has been deferred until the January Cabinet meeting as the strategy document that is scheduled to accompany the report is still in draft form and is currently out to internal consultation.

This report will now be taken to Cabinet in September 2014 to allow consideration of the alignment of flood strategies. It has therefore been withdrawn from the Forward Plan for the time being.