This briefing paper (published November 2024) provides an overview of flood and coastal risk management in the UK, including which bodies manage risk, current policy on flood risk management, and how flood…
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WITHDRAWN – Fowles Crushed Concrete planning appeal
Extract from RBWM – Appeal Decision Report 28 October 2024 – 27 November 2024 Appeal Ref.: 24/60101/COND Planning Ref.: Appellant: Mr William Fowles c/o Agent: Mr Michael Krantz 1 Cornhill London EC3V…
Wraysbury ‘vulnerable’ at start of flood season RBWM told
Extract from Slough Observer 26-11-2024 Wraysbury ‘vulnerable’ at start of flood season RBWM told By Nick Clark – Local Democracy Reporter People in a flood-hit village have been left feeling ‘very…
How much money does the Environment Agency spend on maintaining designated main rivers?
How much public money (that is – your money) does the Environment Agency actually spend every year on maintaining the designated main rivers that are their responsibility? By that I mean maintaining…
Flooding coming again? Jubilee control gates in use?
Valencia and Malaga? Cars heaped in car parks and floating down the river? Just a thought! It is not even 12 months since the last flood event here – but no watercourse…
Still awaiting answers from Cabinet Mtg.
RBWM CABINET – Wednesday 30 October 2024 (Extract from the Meeting Minutes) Councillor Larcombe, Datchet, Horton & Wraysbury, wished to highlight some past and future flood related matters to the Cabinet that…
Conflicts of interest in the civil service?
This is a National Audit Office Press release dated: 22 Nov 2024 According to the report gaps in how public bodies manage conflicts of interest among staff pose a risk to government’s…
Conservatives forgotten Council Tax policy?
‘Maintain our status as having the lowest council tax outside London’? Today RBWM has the lowest Council Tax outside London – and is on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. In my opinion…
Consultation on River Basin Management Plans
The Working Together public consultation opens on 14 November 2024 for 6 months on Gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/river-basin-planning-working-together-2024. This is the first consultation of three in the process of reviewing and updating the river basin management plans,…
Asylum seekers return to Datchet
Extract from Mailonline 15-11-2024 Families in pretty Windsor village [Datchet] say they are selling up – after claiming migrants being housed in their local hotel have turned it into a ‘hellhole’ Furious…