{"id":1563,"date":"2025-01-01T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2025-01-02T08:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:28:18","slug":"future-flood-and-water-management-legislation-memorandum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhwnews.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Future Flood and Water Management Legislation Memorandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mainTitle\">This is my response to a Parliamentary Committee consultation dated <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>October 2010.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mainTitle\"><strong>Future Flood and Water Management Legislation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Memorandum submitted by Ewan Larcombe (FFW 05)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong> &#8211; This submission seeks to consider some unresolved flooding and flood management legislation, policy and practice issues. In particular the Flood Risk Regulations 2009 and the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 suffer shortcomings due to time pressures caused by potential EC infraction and Parliamentary wash-up procedures. The main themes are \u2018the duty to maintain watercourses for flood water conveyance purposes\u2019, the reduction in the probability of flooding, \u2018the active involvement of interested parties\u2019 in the flood defence process, and the variation from \u2018investment in flood defence\u2019 to \u2018cost of consequences\u2019.<br \/>\nMemorandum submitted by Ewan Larcombe (FFW 05)<\/p>\n<p>The complete Memorandum can be found in the library <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201011\/cmselect\/cmenvfru\/writev\/522\/05.htm\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to a Parliamentary Committee consultation dated October 2010. 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