WP3 England Rotherham Town Centre FMS MARE North Sea Region
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Managing Adaptive REsponses to changing flood risk, Rotherham town centre flood risk management strategy development Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in collaboration with the partners of the MARE project FV 130304 FV 130304 List of stakeholders Interest Knowledge Regulators Planning bodies development Ref. Stakeholder t No. Developers Long term ownership life Wild Heritage Environment Water quality Water quantity Emergency plannning Strategy planners Development control controlBuilding Road/Transpor Initiators Create state of the art knowledge knowledge maintenance Public authorities and water utility organisations A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D A D 1 National Government 2 Environment Agency 3 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Sheffield City Council Infrastructure owners : gas, electricity, telecom, 8 railway 9 Property owners 10 Interest groups - Consultants, architects 11 Knowledge institutions - University of Sheffield 12 Citizens, organisations and communities FV 130304 FV 130304 Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Aims and objectives ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Background ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Regulations, procedures and standards .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3.1 The European Union ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 1.3.2 UK Central Government ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3.3 The Environment Agency ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3.4 Local Authorities (Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) ............................................................................................................................... 7 1.4 Summary and Way Forward .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.5 Timeline and flow diagram ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 2 Details .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.1 Analysis and assessment ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 2.1.1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessments .......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 Problem Definition ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 2.3 Options Considered........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 2.4 Selected Option .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 2.5 Implementation ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 2.5.1 Rotherham Renaissance Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase One ............................................................................................................................. 19 2.5.2 Rotherham Renaissance Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase Two............................................................................................................................. 21 FV 130304 2.5.3 The Flood Risk Toolkit ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 22 2.5.4 External Advice – The Lower Don Valley and Yorkshire and Humberside Learning and Action Alliances ............................................................ 23 2.5.5 External Advice – MARE ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 2.6 Performance and Effects of the Selected Option .......................................................................................................................................................... 24 2.6.1 Overtopping ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 2.6.2 Breaching of Defences ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 2.6.3 Climate Change Adaptation ................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 3 Review .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 3.1 Discussion ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27 3.2 Learning Points ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 3.3 Conclusions .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 3.4 Recommendations ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 FV 130304 background of catastrophic global economic application of the five individual work downturn, leading to a programme of packages and a thought process which entails: 1 Introduction swingeing public sector cuts. Over the past decade, Rotherham Considering whether flood defences need Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) has The legislative requirement are therefore to be provided in the first place; if so sought to develop a flood alleviation policy juxtaposed with increased Local Authority (LA) where and to what degree or extent. against a background of almost responsibility in the fields of climate change in Ensuring that flood defences are not unprecedented environmental and economic general and flood alleviation in particular, at a purely utilitarian and that they bring turmoil. time of vastly reduced funding and staff resources. environmental enhancement as well as In the United Kingdom (UK) a series of solving the need for flood alleviation. abnormally wet summer and autumn events, Moreover, this is a burgeoning discipline, Ensuring that climate change and the possibly linked to climate change has led to reversing a forty year trend of reducing local need to counter-act over-topping or flooding, in some part of the country in almost authority involvement in water management breaching are incorporated into flood every year between 2000 and 2012 with major in the UK. This national policy has reduced defence works. events occurring in 2000, 2007, 2009 and local authority experience and expertise in the field of flood risk management to minimal 2012. Application of the individual work packages levels. In order to redress the situation, RMBC contained within MARE has also proved These events,