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North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan Summary Report June 2012 Managing Flood Risk We Are the Environment Agency North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan Summary Report June 2012 managing flood risk We are the Environment Agency. It’s our job to look after your environment and make it a better place – for you, and for future generations. Your environment is the air you breathe, the water you drink and the ground you walk on. Working with business, Government and society as a whole, we are making your environment cleaner and healthier. The Environment Agency. Out there, making your environment a better place. Published by: Environment Agency Manley House Kestrel Way Exeter EX2 7LQ Tel: 0870 8506506 Email: [email protected] www.environment-agency.gov.uk © Environment Agency All rights reserved. This document may be reproduced with prior permission of the Environment Agency. June 2012 Introduction I am pleased to introduce our summary of the North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan (CFMP). This CFMP gives an overview of the flood risk in the North Devon catchment and sets out our preferred plan for sustainable flood risk management over the next 50 to 100 years. The North Devon CFMP is one of 77 CFMPs for England Flood risk in North Devon is mainly from rivers and and Wales. Through the CFMPs, we have assessed surface water, although there is also significant flood inland flood risk across all of England and Wales for the risk from tidal flooding in Barnstaple, Bideford and first time. The CFMP considers all types of inland Ilfracombe. In addition to these communities there is flooding, from rivers, ground water, surface water and also risk to people, property and infrastructure tidal flooding, but not flooding directly from the sea concentrated around Braunton, Combe Martin and (coastal flooding), which is covered by Shoreline Okehampton. Several significant floods have occurred Management Plans (SMPs). Our coverage of surface in North Devon, including the Lynmouth flood in 1952. and ground water is however limited due to a lack of During the autumn 2000 floods severe flood warnings available information. were issued for the lower reaches of the rivers Taw, Torridge and East Lyn. The role of CFMPs is to establish flood risk management policies which will deliver sustainable flood risk We cannot reduce flood risk on our own, we will management for the long term. This is essential if we therefore work closely with all our partners to improve are to make the right investment decisions for the the co-ordination of flood risk activities and agree the future and to help prepare ourselves effectively for the most effective way to manage flood risk in the future. impact of climate change. We will use CFMPs to help us We have worked with others including: Devon County target our limited resources where the risks are Council, Natural England, South West Water and the greatest. National Farmers Union to develop this plan. This CFMP identifies flood risk management policies to This is a summary of the main CFMP document, if you assist all key decision makers in the catchment. It was need to see the full document an electronic version can produced through a wide consultation and appraisal be obtained by emailing process, however it is only the first step towards an [email protected] integrated approach to Flood Risk Management. As we or alternatively paper copies can be viewed at any of all work together to achieve our objectives, we must our offices in South West Region. monitor and listen to each others progress, discuss what has been achieved and consider where we may need to review parts of the CFMP. Richard Cresswell South West Regional Director Environment Agency North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan 1 Contents The purpose of a CFMP in managing flood risk 3 Catchment overview 4 Current and future flood risk 6 Future direction for flood risk management 10 Sub-areas 1 Taw and Torridge Estuary sub-area 12 2 Okehampton sub-area 13 3 Rural North Devon sub-area 14 4 Coastal Rivers sub-area 16 5 Dartmoor and Exmoor sub-area 17 6 Ilfracombe and Braunton sub-area 18 7 Barnstaple and Bideford sub-area 20 8 Lynmouth and Combe Martin sub-area 22 Map of CFMP policies 24 2 Environment Agency North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan The purpose of a CFMP in managing flood risk CFMPs help us to understand the • Internal Drainage Boards (IDB), CFMPs aim to promote more scale and extent of flooding now and water companies and other sustainable approaches to in the future, and set policies for utilities to help plan their managing flood risk. The policies managing flood risk within the activities in the wider context of identified in the CFMP will be catchment. CFMPs should be used to the catchment; delivered through a combination of inform planning and decision different approaches. Together with • transportation planners; making by key stakeholders such as: our partners, we will implement • land owners, farmers and land these approaches through a range • the Environment Agency, who will managers that manage and of delivery plans, projects and use the plan to guide decisions operate land for agriculture, actions. on investment in further plans, conservation and amenity projects or actions; The relationship between the CFMP, purposes; delivery plans, strategies, projects • Regional Assemblies and local • the public and businesses to and actions is shown in Figure 1. authorities who can use the plan enhance their understanding of to inform spatial planning flood risk and how it will be activities and emergency managed. planning; Figure 1. The relationship between CFMPs, delivery plans, projects and actions Policy planning • CFMPs and Shoreline Management Plans. • Action plans define requirement for delivery plans, projects and actions. Policy delivery plans (see note) Projects and actions • Influence spatial planning to reduce risk and • Make sure our spending delivers the best restore floodplains. possible outcomes. • Prepare for and manage floods (including local • Focus on risk based targets, for example numbers Flood Warning plans). of households at risk. • Managing assets. • Water level management plans. • Land management and habitat creation. Note: Some plans may not be led by us – we may identify the • Surface water management plans. need and encourage their development. Environment Agency North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan 3 Catchment overview The North Devon catchment includes Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Steeply sloping tributaries drain from the areas drained by the River Taw and 500 Scheduled Monuments. the high ground of Exmoor and and its tributaries, the River Torridge There are many other ecologically, Dartmoor to the low-lying Taw and and its tributaries, and the North socially and historically important Torridge estuary, or, for the small Devon Coastal Rivers that flow sites in the catchment and a network coastal catchments, directly to the directly into the sea. of good quality river courses, with six sea. Annual rainfall ranges from Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) more than 2,300mm (90in) in the The North Devon CFMP covers an and 62 Sites of Special Scientific upland areas of Dartmoor and area of some 2,300 square Interest (SSSI). Exmoor to 800mm (31in) at the kilometres (900 square miles). coast. The England and Wales The main urban areas are North Devon is a catchment with average is 920mm (36in). Barnstaple, Bideford, Braunton, varied landscape, including the rare Combe Martin, Great Torrington, Culm grasslands, marshland, parts Ilfracombe, Lynton and Lynmouth, of the two National Parks of Exmoor North Tawton, Okehampton and and Dartmoor, and woodlands. South Molton. These densely Much of the countryside is populated towns are surrounded by recognised for its environmental and a mostly rural catchment with cultural value including an Area of properties scattered over the area. Much of the countryside is recognised for its environmental and cultural value 4 Environment Agency North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan Map 1. Location and extent of the North Devon CFMP area Legend Ilfracombe North Devon CFMP Porlock Urban areas Braunton Main rivers Barnstaple Railway Westward Ho! Motorway South Bideford Molton Great Torrington Tiverton N Bude Okehampton Crediton 0 4 8 12 16 Kilometres © Crown Copyright. Environment Agency 100026380. ➜ Blocking ditches with peat dams to increase water storage. Photograph courtesy of Exmoor National Park Environment Agency North Devon Catchment Flood Management Plan 5 Current and future flood risk Overview of the current flood risk What is at risk? Flood risk in North Devon comes warnings were issued on the rivers In total, some 4,508 properties (5% from river, surface water and tidal Taw, Torridge and East Lyn, and more of all properties) are at risk of flooding. than 100 properties in Barnstaple flooding from a 1% annual were affected by flooding. probability flood, although 628 of Several sites with environmental these are defended to this standard. designations are affected by Surface water flooding causes more This includes risks to schools, flooding. frequent small floods, affecting a nurseries and health centres. small number of properties. Many of A flood warning system is in place the more rural areas may flood In Okehampton, the consequences for the larger towns in the Taw, regularly, affecting isolated of flooding may be high due to the Torridge and North Devon Coastal properties, communities and flashy nature of its rivers and the catchments. Elsewhere, there are agricultural land. high social vulnerability, notably several towns along smaller high proportion of elderly residents. tributaries and rivers that have no Other high risk groups include flood warning service. caravan park residents such as at Several significant floods have South Molton. occurred in North Devon, including Six Special Areas of Conservation the Lynmouth flood of 1952, which (SACs) along with 18 Sites of Special resulted in 34 fatalities. During the Scientific Interest (SSSIs) are at risk autumn 2000 floods, severe flood from flooding.
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