The Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 2020 -2026

www.cornwall.gov.uk Around 1 in 6 properties in Cornwall are in locations that could flood: From tides - 5,000 properties From rivers - 12,000 properties From surface water - 20,000 properties More than 180 towns, villages or hamlets in Cornwall have 10 or more properties at risk of flooding

Multiple significant flood events occurred in: 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019

We need to better manage the risk of flooding because: • It causes distress to the victims of flood • It causes social upheaval • There are potential impacts on public health • Recovery is expensive • It impacts on the economy

This document is supported by the Environment Agency and South West Water. Contents

Foreword 2 Raglavar 3 Executive Summary 5 1 Introduction to the Strategy 6 1.1 Why we need a flood risk strategy 6 1.2 The aim of the Strategy 6 1.3 Where the strategy fits 6 1.4 How this strategy was prepared 6 1.5 Overview of strategy assessments 6 1.6 Communication 6 1.7 Structure of this strategy 7 1.8 Monitoring and review 8 2 The Strategy 8 2.1 Vision for Local Flood Risk Management in Cornwall 8 A. Partnership 9 B. Resilient communities 10 C. Development planning and regeneration 11 D. Working with natural processes 12 E. Prioritising and funding 13 F. Multiple benefits 14 3 Flood risk management in Cornwall 17 3.1 The wider picture – Flood Risk Management planning 17 3.2 Factors that may influence the future 18 3.3 Types of Flood Risk 20 3.4 Responsibilities for local Flood Risk Management 21 3.5 Public engagement 21 3.6 Cornwall Community Flood Forum and community groups 21 3.7 Flood Reporting and the FORT System 21 Glossary and abbreviations 24 Appendix 26

3 Foreword

With all this we also have to recognise that there are Cornwall is at risk of flooding. future challenges of funding for flood defence projects. This can be from intense These challenges call for a greater emphasis on partnership and alternative funding mechanisms as rainfall overwhelming drainage well as for building resilience within communities. We need to seek interventions that provide the best systems and sewers, from returns. This may involve alternative approaches to just rivers overflowing and along building more defences, such as allocating space for flood water and working with the natural environment our coasts through high tides to slow and store water. By publishing this local Strategy, we hope to provide a and stormy seas. greater awareness of the issues and to be transparent recognises that we cannot eliminate and open in our approach to interpreting national these risks so we must try to manage them as best strategy at an appropriate local level and suiting we can. This 2020 update to the 2014 Local Flood Cornwall’s geographical uniqueness. Risk Management Strategy for Cornwall is a welcome Whilst the approach taken in 2014 is still valid, it statement on Cornwall Council’s approach to managing is important to review the Strategy on a periodic flood risks locally. basis. In 2019 Cornwall Council declared a Climate Cornwall is the first part of the UK to meet the Change Emergency. This is reflected in the updated prevailing Atlantic weather systems and is sometimes Strategy, with a greater emphasis being placed on referred to as ’s breakwater. This means we climate change impacts, resilience and adaptation. need to be prepared for whatever the weather throws I also support the greater emphasis on natural at us. flood management solutions, on working with local communities and promoting property level flood Cornwall has many steep sided river valleys with small resilience measures. river catchments that respond quickly to rainfall. A short period of intense rain can result in rapid flooding By publishing this updated Local Strategy, we hope to with little warning, as was seen in Boscastle in 2004 and provide a greater awareness of the issues and to be Coverack in 2017. Many communities are located on transparent and open in our approach to interpreting exposed coastlines at the bottom of steep river valleys national strategy at an appropriate local level. and are at risk of flooding from fast flowing rivers and stormy seas with large waves. The hazard to people and property can be high. Climate change poses greater future risks with the likelihood of more intense rainfall that increases flood peaks in small rapidly responding catchments. Coastal areas will also be more likely to be affected by rising sea levels and by more frequent and larger storm surges and rougher seas with larger waves.

Councillor Rob Nolan Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods and Public Protection

4 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy Raglavar

Yma peryl dhe Gernow hy bos livys. Hemm a yll bos dhyworth glawas glew a worlenow karthkleudhyansow ha kawghbibow, dhyworth avonyow a fenn, hag a-hys agan arvoryow, dre vortidys ha moryow tewedhek. Konsel Kernow a aswon na yllyn dilea an peryllow ma Copperhouse Pool, , 2019 ha rag henna res yw dhyn assaya aga dyghtya gwella gyllyn. An nowedhyans 2020 ma dhe Strateji Kernow Dyghtya Peryl a Liv Leel yw menegyans wolkom a’n a-denewen spas rag dowrow liv hag oberi gans an fordh Konsel Kernow dhe dhyghtya peryl a liv yn leel. kerghynnedh naturel rag lenthe ha gwitha dowr. Kernow yw kynsa rann an RU dhe dhos erbynn Dre dhyllo an Strateji leel ma govenek a’gan beus previ systemow gwarthevyek kewer an Atlantek hag yw warneth vrassa a’n maters ha bos ylyn hag igor ha ni henwys treweythyow lett mor Pow Sows. Hemm a styr ow tisplegya stateji kenedhlek orth nivel leel gwiw ha bos edhom dhyn a ombareusi rag pypynag a dewllo an desedha unnikter doroniethel Kernow. gewer er agan pynn ni. Kyn fo ewn hwath an fordh holys yn 2014, posek yw dhe Kernow a’s teves lies downans avon serth aga emlow dhasweles an Strateji treweythyow. Yn 2019 y tiskleryas ha kreunvaow byghan a dhasober yn skon dhe lawas. Konsel Kernow Goredhom Chanj an Hin Dastewynnys Sewyans spys a lawas glew a yll bos livans uskis heb yw hemma y’n Strateji nowydhhes, gans poslev brassa meur a waynyans, dell veu gwelys yn Kastel Boterel gorrys war effeythyow a janj an hin, gwedhynder hag yn 2004 ha Porthkovrek yn 2017. Yma lies kemeneth aswiwans. Keffrys y skoodhyav an poslev brassa war desedhys war arvoryow diglos a-barth woles dhe dhigolmow naturel dhe dhyghtya liv, war gesoberi dhownansow avon serth, hag yma peryl dhedha a gans kemenethow leel ha war avonsya kammow livans der avonyow uskis aga fros ha moryow tewedhek gwedhynder erbynn liv orth nivel an gerth. bras aga mordon. An peryl dhe dus ha dhe gerthow a yll Dre dhyllo an Strateji leel ma govenek a’gan beus previ bos sevur. warneth vrassa a’n maters ha bos ylyn hag igor ha ni ow Chanj an hin a brof peryllow brassa y’n termyn a dheu, tisplegya stateji kenedhlek orth nivel leel gwiw. gans chons a lawas glewa a voghha ughboyntow livans yn kreunvaow byghan a dhasober yn uskis. Y fydh moy gwirhaval may fydh morebow nasyes gans nivelyow mor owth ughelhe ha gans brassa hwythfiansow tewedh ha moryow garowa gans mordonnow brassa. Gans oll a hemma res yw dhyn aswon keffrys bos chalenjys devedhek yn kever arghasans a-barth ragdresow defens livans. An chalenjys ma a ergh brassa poos war geskowethyans ha maynys ken arghasans keffrys ha gwedhynder drehevyansow yn kemenethow. Konselore Rob Nolan Synsyas Plegel rag Yma edhom dhyn a hwilas melyansow a brovio an Kentrevethow ha gwella prow. Martesen hemm a wra myska ken maynys Difresyans Poblek a-der drehevel moy defensow yn unnik, kepar ha gorra

5 Executive summary

The Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for Cornwall sets out how Cornwall Council and its partner authorities intend to work together to manage flood risk from all sources. The vision for the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy is the creation of a resilient Cornwall, able to adapt to the challenges and opportunities of a changing climate.

Our flood risk management commitments for Cornwall are: This vision for managing flood risks in Cornwall is • We will work with our communities and other underpinned by six overarching and crosscutting Flood Risk Management organisations to manage themes: the likelihood and impact of flooding and coastal change for the benefit of our communities, A. Partnership visitors, businesses and environment. B. Resilient Communities • We will develop our natural environment to C. Development planning and regeneration create climate change adaptation solutions that build resilient communities and encourage D. Working with natural processes environmental growth. E. Prioritising and funding • We will support local people and businesses to . Multiple benefits take part in managing the risks that affect them. F • We will coordinate information sharing, plan Each theme is supported by an overriding objective, making, prioritising investment and effective aims, future actions and achievements since the project implementation. publication of the first strategy. • We will prioritise high risk locations for proposed This Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for Cornwall improvement schemes. is one of 3 stages in delivering a strategic approach to flood risk management. This document is an overall strategy for Cornwall supported by individual “We will continue to build community profiles to understand community risk and risk management projects delivered through an annual climate change resilience programme of actions to mitigate or adapt to that risk: in our most vulnerable places • The Strategy – This document by working in partnership with • Community Profiles – Ongoing communities, stakeholders • Action Plan – Reported on annually Cornwall Council has adopted this Local Flood Risk and our natural environment to Management Strategy to guide the development of reduce risk through adaptation policy and programmes across its operations and in its work with other organisations, communities and and mitigation. stakeholders.

6 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 1 Introduction to the Strategy

1.1 Why we need a Local Flood Risk to address. The sources of flooding in Cornwall are often interrelated, and the solutions to resolve these Management Strategy for Cornwall challenges require a comprehensive and integrated Cornwall Council is the Lead Local Flood Authority, we approach with partner organisations. are committed to fulfil our legislative requirements, one of which is the creation of this Local Flood Risk 1.4 How this strategy was prepared Management Strategy. This strategy gives Cornwall the This strategy is produced by Cornwall Council in opportunity to explore the challenges that are specific consultation with key stakeholders. This provides an to us and prioritise the activities that will bring about opportunity to continue improving the way we work sustainable investment in an uncertain future. Whilst together so that we can provide a shared vision for how we acknowledge the National Flood Risk Management flood risk, coastal change and land drainage issues Strategy, this strategy is focussed on what we can do at should be managed in the future. the local level to create improved resilience to a changing climate. 1.5 Overview of strategy As a Lead Local Flood Authority, Cornwall Council is required by legislation to develop, maintain, apply and assessments monitor a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy. The In developing the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy, format and nature of this strategy has been developed Cornwall Council has carried out a range of assessments to address Cornwall’s particular circumstances. By to identify social, economic and environmental impacts. publishing this local strategy, Cornwall Council The strategy is accompanied by a Comprehensive demonstrates a will to drive forward and interpret Impact Assessment and a Sustainability Appraisal (which national strategy at an appropriate local level to achieve covers the requirements for Strategic Environmental the best outcomes for Cornwall. Assessment, Water Framework Directive Compliance and Health Impact Assessment). 1.2 The aim of the Strategy The aim of the Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management 1.6 Communication Strategy is to provide a transparent approach for It is important that effective communication takes place managing and reducing flood risk in a way that benefits with the public to make sure that residents, visitors, people, property and the environment. It is the focal employers and others have the knowledge to contribute point for integrating flood risk related actions across to their own resilience to flooding and can be actively Cornwall. It is also cognisant of the increasing challenges involved in flood risk management. of climate change, and the adaptation measures Our communication of the key messages should be clear, required to create resilient communities. and we will use different methods to raise awareness as 1.3 Where the strategy fits appropriate The Local Flood Risk Management Strategy is an 1.7 Structure of this strategy important tool to help manage flood risk in Cornwall. It This Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for Cornwall is used to guide and join up the policies and actions from is stage one of three stages in delivering a strategic different organisations all over Cornwall. approach to flood risk management. This document This strategy links national plans and legislation with is an overall strategy for Cornwall supported by the local plans and initiatives. second stage of individual community flood risk profiles Flood risk must be considered alongside other to understand community risk and risk management strategies such as transport plans, strategic planning, projects delivered through an annual programme of environmental and economic objectives and sustainable actions to mitigate or adapt to that risk: development and the implications of the climate • The Strategy – This document emergency declaration. • Community Profiles – ongoing The strategy applies to all forms of flooding, outlined in • Action Plan – Reported on annually Table 2, not just those that Cornwall Council is required

7 Stage 2 of our approach to flood risk management 1.8 Monitoring and review in Cornwall consists of a series of community level Local Flood Risk Management Profiles. These contain The Local Flood Risk Management Strategy is reviewed specific flood risk information for a series of (initially 28) on a six-year cycle. The Community Flood Profiles (Stage high priority communities. These communities were 2) will be continually amended and updated as further identified using the Cornwall Preliminary Flood Risk issues and information come to light or as initiatives are Assessment (PFRA) in 2011 and confirmed in the PFRA implemented to decrease flood risk. The latest versions refresh of 2017. are available on the Cornwall Council website. The process for reporting and monitoring on the strategy The communities that are currently outlined for is through the annual Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk development of community profiles are located in Management Report to the Neighbourhoods Oversight Figure 1. Each profile acts as a focus for flood risk and Scrutiny Committee (NOSC) report. This outlines all information at a community or town level. They bring flood and coastal erosion risk management activity for together information from a number of national, the reporting year (July – June of each year). This report regional and local sources – including from our partner is presented to NOSC on an annual basis for approval, authorities – and provide interpretations of the together with an outline of future activity. The report is a main issues, risk management options, constraints, publicly available document. opportunities and actions. We are still in the process of drawing these living profiles together and will continue Projects funded under Flood Defence Grant in Aid are to do so during the lifecycle of this strategy subject to quarterly progress reports to the South West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (SWRFCC) who Stage 3 of our approach to flood risk management in approve all project submissions before Flood Defence Cornwall is a yearly report presented to the Council; The Grant in Aid can be claimed. The SWRFCC meetings are Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Annual open to the public and the minutes of each meeting are a Report. This report provides an update of all our Flood matter of public record. and Coastal Erosion Risk Management activities and details of significant flood and coastal erosion events during the reporting period. The report also contains any significant changes or additions to Council policy or strategy that could impact flood risk management.

Figure 1: Priority locations identified in the Preliminarily Flood Risk Assessment

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8 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 2 The Strategy

2.1 Vision for Local Flood Risk • We will coordinate information sharing, plan making, prioritising investment and effective project Management in Cornwall implementation. The Vision for the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy • We will prioritise high risk locations for proposed is the creation of a resilient Cornwall, able to adapt to the improvement schemes. challenges and opportunities of a changing climate. This vision for managing flood risks in Cornwall is Our commitments to flood risk management in underpinned by six overarching and crosscutting Cornwall are: themes: • We will work with our communities and other Flood A. Partnership Risk Management organisations to manage the likelihood and impact of flooding and coastal change B. Resilient Communities for the benefit of our communities, visitors, businesses C. Development Planning and Regeneration and environment. D. Working with Natural Processes • We will develop our natural environment to create climate change adaptation solutions that build E. Prioritisation and Funding resilient communities and encourage environmental F. Multiple benefits growth. Each theme is supported by a high-level objective, aim • We will support local people and businesses to take and actions and is explained in turn over the next few part in managing the risks that affect them. pages.

9 A: Partnership Objective A. Take a collaborative and participatory approach to flood risk and coastal change management in Cornwall

Aims Working with communities and partners we will Achievements since 2014 encourage place-based solutions to flood and coastal • Secured and delivered/delivering £50M+ of Flood erosion risk management. Utilising all the evidence Defence Grant in Aid and European funding to available (modelling, historic flooding, changes in land improve resilience. use and development activities) we will encourage • As part of Cornwall’s Devolution deal formed a communities to understand their level of flood risk and Strategic Resilience Board which includes key understand their options for greater resilience. stakeholders to lobby for policy changes and With our partners in other Risk Management Authorities outline long-term investment in Flood and Coastal we will work collaboratively to maximise the use Erosion Risk Management in Cornwall. of funding available and cooperate on community • Been an active member of Cornwall Catchment engagement activities. With wider stakeholders we Partnership; working across themes such as land will draw together the wealth of skills and knowledge use management, water quality improvement and present in Cornwall to create solutions that incorporate flood risk management. all our available resources. • Continued to support Cornwall Community Flood Forum, ensuring that Local Levy funding helps Actions support this vital Cornwall-wide community A1 Continue to develop Stage 2 of our approach to flood resource. risk management – Community Flood Risk Profiles, • Developed flood and coastal erosion risk to share information and inform decision making for management projects that reduce risk, communities, planners and developers, encouraging improve and enhance the environment and community solutions through stronger stakeholder create sustainable communities open to future partnerships. investment. A2 Utilise our Property Flood Resilience projects to deliver a consistent message on flood risk management and encourage household resilience.

A3 As part of the Flood Defence Grant in Aid funding Cornwall Community Flood Forum Annual Conference 2019 work with other Risk Management Authorities to build a deliverable and beneficial flood defence programme. A4 Continue to build partnerships and work with academic institutions to create a solid base of evidence to guide adaptation and mitigation projects. A5 Play an active role in guiding the Cornwall Catchment Partnership to work with landowners on project design and delivery to create sustainable land management practices that support the rural economy and build sustainable resilience.

10 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy B: Resilient communities Objective B. Communities are supported to be resilient and participate in reducing flood risk

Aims Achievements since 2014 By making flood risk information more easily available we will ensure that communities and individuals are • Actively engaged Neighbourhood Planning aware of and understand their flood risk. This will Groups to ensure flood and coastal erosion risk help all stakeholders to make informed choices on management is considered as part of community their neighbourhood development and make long development. term sustainable development choices. We will raise • Supported development and testing of the awareness with landowners and communities about their Home & Dry game which helps explain Flood Risk collective responsibilities and that proactive management and actions communities and individuals can of their environmental assets can have a positive impact undertake to reduce risk. on reducing flood risk. Through community flood risk profiling we will give communities the opportunity to • 11 High Priority communities now have completed review information and work with the Risk Management community flood plans. Authorities to enable their flood risk aspirations. • Secured funding, through a Defra grant, to improve We will also promote the understanding and communications around and uptake of, property implementation of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) flood resilience measures. in Cornwall. We can use PFR to protect homes and businesses from flooding. PFR is the term given to helping residents, communities and businesses to better Resilient communities protect or adapt their individual homes and premises against flooding. Actions B1 Provide guidance to Neighbourhood Planning Groups to incorporate flood and coastal erosion risk information into neighbourhood plans. B2 Update our online information to facilitate better communication of risk and responsibilities, creating specific pages for flood reporting and property flood resilience. B3 As part of Community Flood Risk Profiling we will encourage residents to vision a sustainable and resilient future for their communities. B4 Continue our support of Cornwall Community Flood Flood boards in Looe Forum (through funding available from the South Photo courtesy of Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee). B5 Link community initiatives to emergency planning to encourage community emergency planning and incorporate flood risk response. B6 Establish a self-sustaining legacy in the form of the BeFloodReady website to promote knowledge and understanding of property flood resilience. B7 Simplify and streamline the process for PFR delivery supported by a local and national Government grant mechanism. B8 Provide materials and tools to demonstrate and promote PFR to individuals and communities that would benefit from property level flood resilience.

11 C: Development planning and regeneration Objective C. Local Planning and regeneration enable sustainable development that integrates and delivers Flood Risk Management and coastal change solutions

Aims Achievements since 2014 We aim to promote greater engagement between planners, developers, communities and other • Greater participation in Neighbourhood stakeholders to deliver appropriate development Development Planning to raise awareness of that does not increase flood and coastal erosion flooding and coastal erosion risk risk. We will incorporate flood and coastal erosion • Chief Planning Officers Guidance Note on Planning risk management into urban regeneration and for Coastal Change development projects developed for our most vulnerable towns. Where possible we will encourage • Cornwall Council Sustainable Drainage Policy the use of the natural environment to help support risk published reduction activities, working in the upper catchment • Secured funding for flood risk management as to reduce peak flow intensity. With a changing climate part of the regeneration of the St Austell Bay area we recognise that surface water flooding will become (StARR project) an increasingly greater challenge, we will work with all • Incorporated flood and coastal erosion risk Risk Management Authorities to plan for and minimise management into the draft Climate Change the impact of storm-fed surface water flooding. Development Planning Document and draft Actions Cornwall Design Guide C1 Reduce flood risk in urban areas by integrating natural flood management solutions with the Flood control screen Nature Recovery Network and biodiversity net gain initiatives, off-setting improvements in the upper catchment. C2 Incorporate our understanding of a changing climate into responses on planning applications for new development and encourage utilisation of sustainable drainage systems that increase habitat wherever appropriate to reduce the pressure on existing drainage systems in accordance with Cornwall Councils Sustainable Drainage Systems policy. C3 Encourage greater uptake of Coastal Change Management Areas to ensure appropriate and sustainable development in our vulnerable coastal communities. SuDS attenuation basin C4 Review Climate Change Predictions 2018 (UKCP18), or later data to correctly map current and future flood risk. C5 Support sustainable regeneration through programmes and planning policies to make communities more sustainable and resilient to climate change and coastal change by incorporating flood risk management solutions. C6 Raise awareness of the Climate Change Development Plan Document’s flooding and coastal erosion elements when it has been approved by Council committee.

12 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy D: Working with natural processes Objective D. Work with natural processes to provide a catchment based approach to flood risk management that supports the Nature Recovery Network

Aims Achievements since 2014 Create a solid evidence base which demonstrates the benefits of working with natural processes in managing As a new Objective in this refresh of the strategy flooding and coastal erosion risk management. Utilise there are no related achievements to date. It is this evidence base to pilot projects that provide important to recognise that key strategic documents empirical data to support a natural approach to flood have been developed in the intervening years risk management and to generate funding from the (including Cornwall Council’s Environmental Growth Flood Defence Grant in Aid mechanism. To incorporate Strategy and Climate Emergency Action Plan) the Council’s Carbon Neutral targets into our flood and which all highlight the need to utilise the natural coastal erosion risk management activities to achieve environment in managing current and future flood multiple benefits and support habitat creation and and coastal erosion risk. biodiversity net gain. Current projects in the Mounts Bay area and Par and St Blazey already have elements of working with Actions natural processes in them and we will build upon D1 Grow the evidence base for effective natural flood this through the lessons learned from these projects. management approaches. We are working with our partners in the Cornwall D2 Incorporate a “Working with Natural Processes” Catchment Partnership to create a centralised approach to future flood risk management schemes hub of information, training and guidance to help where appropriate and record environmental landowners make environmentally positive choices achievements for evaluation. in land use and diversification that will support their economic ambitions whilst generating new habitat Work closely with environmental stakeholders and D3 and greater biodiversity assets to reduce the risk of groups to map areas where working with natural flooding. processes would have the most benefit. D4 Work with communities and landowners to make use of all available resources to manage flood risk and generate environmental growth. D5 Ensure future projects take a catchment-based approach, where feasible, and engage communities and landowners early to gain support for wider flood and coastal erosion risk management activities.

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13 E: Prioritising and funding Objective E. Effectively prioritise the resources for flood risk management projects, maximise funding and join resources in the most efficient and effective way to deliver flood risk management interventions Aims Achievements since 2014 We aim to take an innovative, cost efficient invest- to-save approach to flood and coastal erosion risk • Developed and delivered a six-year capital management. Utilising our strong connections with the programme in flood and coastal erosion risk other Risk Management Authorities and the information management (2014-2020). gained over the initial 6 years of the previous strategy to • Developed an agile risk assessment tool for attract new funding which achieves multiple benefits in Cornwall which analyses risk and funding flood and coastal erosion risk management, economic availability to prioritise actions and project regeneration and environmental improvement. Identify development. the intervention opportunities available in Cornwall’s most at risk communities to include innovative and • Formulated a council funded rolling programme traditional forms of risk management. Where possible to leverage flood defence grant in aid and deliver give communities and partners the opportunity to minor works to reduce flood and coastal erosion coordinate placed-based goals and create resilience risk at both a community and individual household pathways for the sustainable future. level. • Improved/improving the standard of protection Actions against flooding to both homes and businesses E1 Prioritise flood risk and coastal change management across Cornwall. resources and actions based on: • Reducing flood risk to residential properties, University of Exeter Sandbox Flood Modelling Tool businesses and critical infrastructure. • Adaptation to climate change • Utilisation of natural process to provide sustainable places in a changing climate • Whether they provide a proportionate balance between social, economic and environmental benefits • Deliverability and value for money E2 Develop projects prioritised in the Medium-Term Plan and Shoreline Management Plan Intent. E3 Create business cases for external contributions and local investment by demonstrating the long-term impact of flooding on residential properties, land values and insurance costs whilst acknowledging the impact of flooding and coastal erosion on vulnerable communities infrastructure and the environment. E4 Monitor and report on funds and spending in a transparent manner.

14 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy F: Multiple benefits Objective F. Ensure that all future flood risk management projects produce multiple benefits through encouraging investment, improving the environment and/or reduce carbon emissions

Aims Achievements since 2014 To combine flooding and coastal erosion risk management interventions to achieve multiple • Promoted Beach Dune Management Plans to benefits to society, the environment and the economy. support habitat revival, adapting coastlines to Where possible combining risk management activities natural processes and provide flood defence. with other initiatives in infrastructure improvement, • Implemented a large-scale project in the St Austell economic regeneration and meeting the Council’s aim area designed to expand economic opportunities, of a Carbon Neutral Cornwall. In conjunction with reduce flood risk burden and provide greater flood previous objectives we will work to reduce the impact resilience. and cost of flooding to businesses, communities and individuals by promoting resilience at the household, • Safeguarded habitat and properties in the community and parish/town level. Mounts Bay area as a first step in securing the sustainability of this area for continued growth. Actions • Promoted the monitoring and delivery of natural F1 Develop placed based interventions in conjunction flood management and habitat creation alongside with wider council strategic objectives to create major road networks in Cornwall. sustainable and resilient places to live and work. F2 Ensure that the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for Cornwall is aligned with the New Weir at Marsh to control Environmental Growth Strategy, Carbon Neutral water levels and improve habitat Cornwall Action Plan and the development of the Local Industrial Strategy. F3 Ensure that co-benefits arise from Flood Risk Management projects in terms of delivering social inclusion, public health, amenity, understanding of the historic and natural environments and adaptation to a changing climate. F4 Design and delivery of projects that promote habitat creation, reduced environmental pressure on our watercourses, achieve biodiversity net gain and return our waterways to a more natural and sustainable condition. F5 Demonstrate the importance of flood risk resilience to the long-term sustainability of infrastructure and Combined sewer overflow (CSO) social developments.

15 16 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy With surface water being the primary risk of flooding to our critical infrastructure and residential properties in Cornwall, we will seek to create resilient communities as outlined in the National Flood Risk Management3 Flood Strategy by workingrisk with managementthe Environment Agency and South West Water to increase the creation of Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans in Cornwall 3.1 The wider picture – Flood Risk Aligning to environmental plans Management planning With the declaration of a Climate Emergency by Cornwall Councillors in 2019 and the completion of the Council’s The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy is Environmental Growth Strategy in 2016, more emphasis about implementing national standards and policies by than ever is now placed on working with nature to create aligning them with local needs and issues. sustainable and resilient places. Recently the Council Aligning to flood risk legislation has committed to a Nature Recovery Network and a Forest for Cornwall, and with a growing understanding Flood risk management planning is carried out at that beavers and other forms of natural engineering can international, national, regional and local scales. The help slow the flow from the upper catchments into our Local Flood Risk Management Strategy provides a urban environments and reduce the risk of flooding, we Cornwall-wide perspective. are now turning to the natural environment to reduce We are required by the Flood and Water Management Act the need for costly and heavily engineered solutions. (2010) to create a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy Flood risk management in Cornwall will work closely and update this strategy on a regular basis. With a with other stakeholders in environmental management increasing focus on climate change, the declaration of a to ensure that we cooperate on our activities and climate emergency by Cornwall Councillors in 2019 and a achieve multiple benefits from each of our projects. This greater emphasis on improving our environment through is also aligned with the 25 Year Environment Plan put both the locally produced Environmental Growth forward by the Government in 2018, which will enable Strategy and the Government’s 25 Year Environment “public money for public good”, we will seek to work Plan this strategy is focussed on the future and how with landowners to support their business development investment should be guided. whilst improving nature and reducing flood risk. To help guide investment the Council, through the With surface water being the primary risk of flooding to resilience component of our Devolution Deal (“The our critical infrastructure and residential properties in Case for Cornwall”) have produced a 25-year Flood and Cornwall, we will seek to create resilient communities as Coastal Erosion Risk Investment Plan. This strategic outlined in the National Flood Risk Management Strategy investment plan highlights 4 key areas; Urban, Rural, by working with the Environment Agency and South Coastal and Community, recognising that future flood West Water to increase the creation of Drainage and risk management projects need to align to the policies, Wastewater Management Plans social conditions and strengths of the areas in which they are implemented.

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17 Aligning to high level flood and coastal management Aligning to incident management plans Emergency planning is guided by the Civil Contingencies The consultation of the National Flood and Coastal Act (2004). At times of flooding, Cornwall Council is a Erosion Risk Management Strategy was in draft as this Category 1 responder, together with the police, fire and Local Flood Risk Management Strategy was opened for rescue services, the ambulance and health services and consultation. Where priorities have aligned between the Environment Agency. Category 2 responders are key the National and the Local strategies, we have aligned co-operating organisations such as utility companies and our measures. It should be recognised however that transport services. Cornwall has a unique position within England, a Coordination between these responders is achieved peninsula county with only one Local Authority as a through a Local Resilience Forum covering the Devon neighbour, and the longest coastline of any authority, and Cornwall Police Authority area. our strategy has focussed on the elements that seek to address our local challenges. Cornwall Council’s Emergency Management team manage multi-agency flood plans for the highest risk The National Strategy highlights the following communities and work with the Environment Agency requirements of a resilient community: to help and encourage local communities – particularly • Place Making – Improve Place Making: Making the those in recognised rapid response catchments – to best use of land and development choices to manage produce local community emergency plans. flooding and coastal change This strategy should enable all people involved in • Protect – Better Protect: Building and maintaining drawing up emergency plans to have access to and make defences and managing the flow of water use of the best available data and information on local flood risk. This will also provide the basis for stakeholder • Respond – Ready to Respond: Preparing for and engagement including two-way feedback between responding effectively to incidents communities and emergency management authorities. • Recover – Recover Quickly: Getting back to normal and building back better 3.2 Factors that may influence We are also implementing a programme of works to implement the Shoreline Management Plan, which the future will help guide the future of our vulnerable coastal Alongside the national and local policy context, there communities and create sustainable places now and are a range of other factors that are likely to influence long into the future. future flood risk in Cornwall. Whilst the future is difficult to predict, trends can help point us to the challenges Aligning to new development management and that are likely to be faced over the lifetime of this planning strategy. In developing the strategy, these key trends Flood risks are considered by planning authorities or future drivers helped to predict likely future issues through the National Planning Policy Framework. New and opportunities. The opportunities and challenges development is directed toward areas with the lowest that affect flood risk management in Cornwall are flood risk and designed so it does not increase flood risks summarised in Table 1. for others. In addition to the trends outlined in Table 2 flood risk In 2020 we started consultation on the Climate Change management in Cornwall will work in parallel with the Development Plan Document, which has sections on aims of a carbon neutral Cornwall following on from the flood and coastal erosion risk management. We are Climate Emergency declared in 2019. Projects designed also working with neighbourhood planners to raise to reduce flood risk and adapt to a changing climate will awareness of current and future flood risks and outline utilise the United Kingdom Climate Projections 2018 areas that would benefit from being categorised as (UKCP18) to demonstrate the long-term benefits of our Coastal Change Management Areas. activities. We do not want to restrict growth in Cornwall, but growth can only occur where there is resilience to a changing climate and should be avoided where inappropriate development could lead to a greater risk of flooding.

18 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy Table 1: Opportunities and Challenges to overcome for greater resilience in Cornwall

Governance Opportunity: Localism provides opportunities for Challenge: Even with greater local powers, flooding communities to exercise greater control. Devolution and and coastal erosion risk management in Cornwall is the creation of Cornwall’s unitary authority gives the dependent on national sources of funding to enable Council more opportunities than ever before to shape actions to reduce risk. We need to ensure that local the local agenda policies are supported by national initiatives or lobby for change

Sustainable Communities Opportunity: Balancing what a community wants Challenge: The long-term impact of a changing climate against a changing risk profile will be challenging but questions our understanding and acceptance of risks. by creating sustainable communities, promoted by Settlement patterns, economic activity and existing land the Sustainable Communities Act (2007), we have the use will need to adapt to the changes that increased opportunity to prepare for the future storminess and accelerated coastal erosion will bring.

Development, Growth and Regeneration Opportunity: Cornwall must be allowed to grow, Challenge: Development pressure and housing but it should be done on the pillars of sustainability affordability are significant problems related to and resilience. With the recently declared climate economic climate, second home ownership, continued emergency, we can influence important development migration into Cornwall and people living in smaller decisions to ensure that they do not create additional households. Rejuvenation of old industrial or run-down vulnerability and instead reduce existing challenges areas may provide a pressure to build new facilities in flood prone areas

Leisure and Tourism Opportunity: There is an opportunity to work with Challenge: Protection of our tourism and leisure assets businesses to increase awareness of their vulnerability is expected and are key to Cornwall’s economy. This and create resilience partnerships. National funding gives rise to increased pressure on Cornwall’s coast requires partnership contributions and those businesses and seaside towns, with many susceptible to flooding. that benefit from improved resilience will be expected to Caravan and campsites are particularly vulnerable to participate flood dangers

Infrastructure Opportunity: Although the national flood defence grant Challenge: In addition to the protection of homes and in aid mechanism does not rate infrastructure protection businesses, infrastructure such as road and rail are also as highly as residential properties, there is some funding at risk of flooding and coastal erosion. Cornwall is reliant available. When designing projects we must not miss on limited amounts of infrastructure across a large the opportunity to achieve multiple benefits to unlock geographical area, which if impacted can have significant additional funding mechanisms. repercussions for goods and services

Climate Change Opportunity: We cannot predict the future, but what we Challenge: With a changing climate we are likely to can do is work with nature to accommodate the changes see an increase in vulnerability to our already at-risk that now seem inevitable. This requires a concerted communities. More frequent and intense storms, sea effort from all stakeholders and presents the opportunity level rise and accelerated coastal erosion will challenge for climate led, community led, environmental existing defences and drainage networks improvement interventions that reduce community vulnerability now and long into the future

19 3.3 Types of Flood Risk Flooding is a natural process which shapes the environment and provides important benefits such as improved soil fertility and maintenance of ecosystems. Problems occur when we want to live in, travel across or use areas that occasionally flood. In some areas it is clear that flooding occurs regularly, such as in river floodplains and tidal zones. In other areas flooding may be more sporadic or caused by our intervention, such as changes in land use, construction of roofs, paving or blocked sewers. The main types of flooding affecting Cornwall are listed in Table 2. These flooding mechanisms often occur at the same time and may interact with each other leading to combined impacts and requiring complex solutions.

Table 2: Types of flooding in Cornwall Pluvial (Rain) Caused by intense rainfall accumulating on the ground before it can flow away. An increase in the frequency or intensity of short sharp rainfall events will lead to more pluvial flooding.

Surface water Rainwater travelling across the surface of the ground or roads on its way to a drainage system, or flowing out of an overloaded drainage system. Usually associated with pluvial flooding and short intense rainfall events.

Fluvial (River) When the capacity of a watercourse is exceeded and the banks are overtopped. Most rivers would naturally overflow onto their floodplain once every year or so unless walls or embankments are constructed to contain it.

Sewers Sewers may carry foul water, rainwater or both (combined). If the capacity of a rainwater or combined sewer is exceeded due to heavy rainfall then it can flood onto the surface. Combined sewers flow to sewage treatment works but may overflow into a watercourse through a combined sewer overflow. Rivers and beaches may become polluted by overflows from combined sewers.

Tidal May occur on the coast or in estuaries and low lying river reaches. High spring tides may be fairly predicable but weather conditions can create storm surges that add significantly to water levels. Both tidal levels and storm surge frequency are expected to increase in the future. Also in Cornwall fluvial flooding may be increased through tide-locking at the river mouth.

Coastal Associated with high tides but also includes the additional effects of winds and waves. May also interact with coastal erosion issues.

Groundwater When the water table rises above the ground surface resulting in springs or boggy conditions. In Cornwall this may include break out from mine drainage systems.

Reservoir Caused by overtopping or breaching of a dam used to impound water. This could result in a large volume of water being released very quickly.

20 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 3.4 Responsibilities for local Flood 3.6 Cornwall Community Flood Risk Management Forum and community groups There are a number of partner organisations with which Cornwall Council is fully committed to supporting the Cornwall Council shares responsibilities for managing Cornwall Community Flood Forum (CCFF). This group flood risks. The main Flood Risk Management Authorities was born out of the recovery process resulting from the are listed in Table 3. floods of November 2010 that severely affected mid Cornwall and St Austell Bay communities. In addition, many other organisations, public and private bodies and groups have a role to play in delivering this The Cornwall Community Flood Forum provides Flood Risk Management Strategy, including but not guidance and assistance to local groups and town or limited to those listed in Table 4 in the appendices. parish councils to respond to flooding emergencies and to be resilient to flooding. It also provides a link to the National Flood Forum. More information is available on 3.5 Public engagement the Cornwall Community Flood Forum website. It is recognised that members of the public may also have valuable information to contribute to the flood risk management process and to the local management of 3.7 Flood Reporting and the FORT flood risk more generally across Cornwall. Stakeholder System engagement can afford significant benefits to local To make flood reporting easier, Cornwall Council has flood risk management including building trust, gaining signed up to the Flood Online Reporting Tool (FORT). access to additional local knowledge and increasing The Flood Online Reporting Tool is a web-based system the chances of stakeholder acceptance of options and which allows Members of the Public, Flood Wardens decisions proposed in flood risk management strategies. and Flood Risk Management Authorities to enter details An interactive internet mapping site for flood risk was about property flooding through our website. The Flood developed in 2009 as part of the Strategic Flood Risk Online Reporting Tool project has been developed by the Assessment 1 process. this provides a publicly accessible GeoWessex partnership. portal for accessing flood risk information for Cornwall. The [email protected] address is used by the public to provide feedback to the Council on flood risk management issues. Pendower, Roseland 2018

21 Table 3: Flood risk management functions for Cornwall Council and others

Cornwall Council as the Lead Local Flood Authority Cornwall Council as the Land Drainage Authority is responsible for overseeing the flood risk from with powers under the Land Drainage Act (1991), such Ordinary Watercourses (see Glossary), groundwater as the implementation and maintenance of flood and surface water runoff. It is also responsible for a defences on ordinary watercourses, to maintain flows number of other actions: and to remove obstructions and any unauthorised • Investigating flood incidents – investigate and structures on ordinary watercourses. record details of significant flood events within Cornwall Council as the Planning Authority is their area. responsible for the preparation of development plans • Asset Register – maintain a register of structures or and making decisions based on planning policy. features which are considered to have a Flood Risk Cornwall Council as the Highway Authority is Management function. responsible for surface water on the highway and • Consenting Sustainable Drainage Systems - maintaining gullies and culverts to ensure effective evaluate, approve and adopt any new sustainable highway drainage. drainage systems (SUDS) within their area. Cornwall Council as an Emergency Management • Works Powers – undertake works to manage flood Authority has duties under the Civil Contingencies risk from surface runoff and groundwater. Act to coordinate the Council’s activities both during • Designation Powers – designate structures and and after an event such as a major flood and to engage features that affect flooding or coastal erosion in with communities, helping them through the recovery order to safeguard assets. phase. • Consenting for works on Ordinary Watercourses - Cornwall Council as the Coastal Authority is this role has been taken over from the Environment responsible for managing coastal erosion, though the Agency. Environment Agency take a strategic overview role. • Local Flood Risk Management Strategy – develop, maintain, apply and monitor a local strategy for flood risk management in its area (this strategy).

The Environment Agency is responsible for managing The South West Regional Flood and Coastal the risk from the sea, Main Rivers (see Glossary) and Committee are responsible for approving the reservoirs and has a strategic overview role for all annual programme of flood and coastal erosion risk Flood Risk Management, making it a key local partner management projects for Cornwall Council, especially when managing the Land/Property Owners that have a watercourse in or risk from combined sources and in the event of a large adjacent to their land have riparian responsibilities on flood incident. The Environment Agency also provides that watercourse. This means that landowners must: a flood warning service throughout England and Wales in areas at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The • Let water flow through their land without any Environment Agency also set high level and long-term obstruction, pollution, or diversion which affects the strategies and is responsible for producing its own FRM rights of others Plans • Accept flood flows through their land, even if these are South West Water as the relevant Water and Sewerage caused by inadequate capacity downstream Company in Cornwall is responsible for supplying clean • Keep the banks clear of anything that could cause an drinking water and for removing and processing waste obstruction and increase flood risk, either on their water. SWW own and maintain the public sewerage land or downstream if it is washed away system and are responsible for managing flooding from • Maintain the bed and banks of the watercourse and these sewers. SWW is governed by the Water Industry the trees and shrubs growing on the banks and clear Act (1991), where the duty of the sewerage undertaker is any litter or debris from the channels and banks, even to provide, improve and extend public sewers to ensure if it did not come from their land that the area is and continues to be effectually drained • Keep any structures such as culverts, trash screens, The Highways Agency is responsible for managing, weirs and mill gates clear of debris maintaining and improving motorways and trunk roads, and their associated drainage and flood risk across England. In Cornwall the Highways Agency has responsibility for the A30 and A38 trunk roads

22 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 23 Glossary and abbreviations Aim A general statement about what you want to achieve Area of Outstanding An area of countryside considered to have significant landscape value in England, Natural Beauty (AONB) Wales or Northern Ireland. Designated under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act Catchment The area of land that contributes to the flow in a watercourse. A catchment boundary is usually a ridge of high land, a watershed, from which the water can flow either way, into one catchment or another Catchment Flood These give an overview of the flood risk across each river catchment. They Management Plan (CFMP) recommend ways of managing those risks now and over the next 50-100 years Coastal Cell A coastline unit within which sediment movement is self-contained. This is used to define policy areas within Shoreline Management Plans Coastal Change Physical change to the shoreline by erosion, coastal landslip, permanent inundation or coastal accretion Coastal Change This is an area identified in Local Plans as likely to be affected by coastal change Management Area (CCMA) Combined Sewer A combined sewer carries a combination of foul water and rainwater. During heavy Overflow (CSO) rainfall events the flow may exceed the capacity of the sewer and overflows are allowed to spill into the environment at designated locations Community Flood Plan A document based on a template provided by the Environment Agency that enables local community volunteers to use local knowledge and resources during a flood emergency Cornwall Community A community-led initiative committed to supporting communities, households and Flood Forum (CCFF) businesses at risk of flooding Cornwall Catchment Cornwall Catchment Partnership (CCP) was established in 2014 with the aim to Partnership (CCP) improve the water resources throughout Cornwall. As part of the national Catchment Based Approach movement, the partnership brings together local people, communities, organisations and businesses to make decisions on managing the streams, rivers, and lakes of Cornwall Critical Drainage Area An area that has critical drainage problems and which has been notified to the local planning authority by the Environment Agency Exceedance Flow Flow that is conveyed or stored on the surface because of the capacity of a drainage system carrying surface water (including as a result of a blockage to an inlet) has been exceeded Flood receptors The item that receives the consequence of flooding, such as people, property, infrastructure or ecosystems Flood resilience A measure that can reduce the damage that occurs to flood receptors Flood risk The combination of the probability of occurrence of a flood event and its potential for negative consequences Flood risk area Areas where the risk of flooding from local flood risks is significant as designated under the Flood Risk Regulations Flood Risk Management Holistic and continuous analysis, assessment and reduction of flood risk (FRM) Flood risk measure An action that is taken to reduce either the probability of flooding or the consequences of flooding or some combination of the two Lead Local Flood Authority Upper tier or unitary local authority with duties as defined within the Flood and Water (LLFA) Management Act and the Flood Risk Regulations. For Cornwall this is Cornwall Council Local Enterprise Locally-owned partnership between local authorities and businesses. LEPs aim Partnership (LEP) to play a central role in determining local economic priorities and undertaking activities to drive economic growth and the creation of local jobs

24 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy Local Flood Risk A review of the flood risk issues relevant to a particular community, including Management Profile options and measures to manage flood risks. Part 2 of this Strategy Local Flood Risk An investment plan detailing FRM actions, interventions and measures to manage Management Action Plan flood risk. The Action Plan may be implemented through the Medium-Term Plan and other funding sources. Part 3 of this Strategy Local Plan This sets planning policies in a local authority area Local Transport Plan Sets out the Council’s transport strategy and policies for maintaining and improving all aspects of the area’s transport system Main river A Main River is a river that has been designated as such by the Environment Agency. These tend to be the larger arterial watercourses that are considered to pose a significant flood risk Measure A course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose Medium-Term Plan (MTP) Each year Risk Management submit details of proposed flood and coastal erosion management works which require funding from Government. Ordinary watercourse Ordinary watercourses include all rivers and streams not designated as a Main River and all ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dikes, sluices, sewers (other than public sewers) and passages, through which water flows Operational Area A collection of catchments defined by the Environment Agency for management purposes under the Water Framework Directive Preliminary Flood Risk An assessment of vulnerability to flooding across a LLFA area. These are updated on Assessment (PFRA) a 6-year cycle and are a stage in delivering the Flood Risk Regulations Riparian Owner One who owns land bounding or including a lake, river or other body of water Risk Management An organisation with specific responsibility for managing flood risks as defined by Authority (RMA) section 6 (13) of the Flood and Water Management Act (2010). In Cornwall the RMAs are Cornwall Council, The Environment Agency, South West Water and the Highways Agency River Basin Management River Basin Management Plans describe the regional river basin district and the Plan (RBMP) pressures facing the water environment within it. It shows what this means for the current state of the water environment in the river basin district, and what actions will be taken to address the pressures Shoreline Management A high-level assessment of the risks associated with coastal processes. It helps Plan (SMP) reduce these risks to people and the developed, historic and natural environments by setting short, medium and long-term policy options Strategic Flood Risk A study carried out by the local planning authority to assess the risk to an area from Assessment (SFRA) flooding from all sources, now and in the future, taking account of the impacts of climate change, and to assess the impact that land use changes and developments in the area will have on flood risk Sustainable development That which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Refers to the process by which sustainability may be achieved Sustainable Drainage Techniques used for managing rainwater and flood risks in an environmentally Systems (SuDS) friendly way by mimicking natural water systems such as ponds, wetlands and basins or by infiltration into the ground Town framework Town framework plans were developed to provide a framework for the future development of our towns. They show how the vision, objectives and policy for the area may be achieved and illustrates the implications of the proposed vision, objectives and policy for the area Water Framework A legislative act of the European Union to establish a framework for the protection of Directive inland surface waters (rivers and lakes), transitional waters (estuaries), coastal waters (to one nautical mile) and groundwater.

25 Appendix Table 4: Examples of organisations with a role to play in effective flood risk management in Cornwall

Risk Management Authority External Stakeholders, such as • Cornwall Council • The public • Environment Agency • Town and parish councils • South West Water • Academia • Highways Agency • Natural England Cornwall Council Roles • English Heritage • Flood and Drainage • Port and Harbour Authorities • Emergency Management • Local Resilience Forum • Highways • Public Health England • Historic Environment • NHS • Public Health and Protection • Health and Wellbeing Board • Planning and Regeneration • Network Rail • Public Open Spaces • National Trust • Maritime • Cornwall Wildlife Trust • Localism and Devolution • AONB Partnership • Natural Environment • Westcountry Rivers Trust • Arms-length companies and contractors • RSPB • Local Enterprise Partnership Government Bodies • Local Nature Partnership • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy • Surfers Against Sewage • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs • Cornwall Community Flood Forum • Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government • National Farmers Union • Local Government Association • Voluntary and Community Sector

26 | The Cornwall Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 27 If you would like this information in another format or language please contact: Cornwall Council, County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, TR1 3AY e: [email protected] t: 0300 1234 100

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