Floods Directive and Flooding Bill Flood Risk Management Planning

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Floods Directive and Flooding BillFlood Risk
Management Planning
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Floods Directive

• The Directive requires action by member states in
  three main areas-
• Preliminary flood risk assessment
• Flood hazard/Risk mapping
• (Catchment) flood risk management planning

Flood Risk Mapping
Catchment Management plan/strategy
Flood Risk assessments
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Timetable

• Draft Bill- June 2008
• Up to 2 years developing secondary legislation
  and guidance.

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EU Floods Directive Implementation Option 1
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Flood Management planning

• Many elements to flood risk management planning
• Different types of plans will be required
• Different bodies (or groups of bodies)
  responsible for different plans or parts of
  plans.
• Two dominant types of plans
• Strategic plans and Implementation plans
• Plans must work in harmony- requires careful
  planning (e.g. timing) and collaboration

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Strategic Plans- Competent SEPA

• Sets framework for addressing significant flood
  risk through sustainable approaches to flood
  management
• Implements EU Flood directive
• Sets policy framework
• Preliminary Flood risk assessments and
  identification of significant risks
• Flood risk mapping
• Integrate with other plans and objectives (e.g.
  WFD)
• Sets objectives and summarises measures
• Identifies requirements for implementation plans
  
• Timetable

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Implementation Plans- appropriate responsible
authority

• More detailed appraisal and planning of measures
  within specific catchments. Used to deliver the
  objectives outlined in the strategic plan
• Could include-
• Integrated Urban Drainage Plans
• Local Authority Flood Alleviation Plans,
• Forestry Plans
• Key Role for LA in producing local implementation
  plans

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Flood Management planning
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Flood Management Planning

• What scale should plans be produced over?
• Strategic plans
• Could be based on the Sub-Basin districts
  defined under for the WFD.
• Implementation plans
• Scale should not be fixed- should be should set
  at an appropriate scale for implementation
  planning purposes

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Flood Management Planning
Current WFD sub-basin districts
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Strategic Plan
Implementation
Local Authority Flood Alleviation Plan Catchment
focused plan of alleviation works to address
identified significant flood risk. Should be
viewed as a sub-plan of the Area Flood Management
Plan
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Flood Risk Management Planning
Implementation Lead- Appropriate Responsible
Authority
Flood Risk Management Plan/strategy Lead-
Competent Authority
Advisory Groups
Stakeholder Forums
Steering Group
Flood Risk assessments
Flood Risk Mapping
Catchment Management plan/strategy
Data Collation/ catchment understanding
Implementation/ implementation plans
The implementation of measures would be taken
forward by the appropriate responsible
authority. Implementation plans, for instance
integrated urban drainage plans or Local
Authority alleviation plans, may be required to
help organise and plan the implementation of some
measures. These plans would be set within the
context of the wider Flood Risk Management Plan.

The competent authority would fulfil a strategic,
coordinating role in flood management. They
would be responsible for delivering flood risk
assessments, flood maps and Flood Management
plans. Responsible authorities would have a duty
to actively support production and delivery of
this work. This work would be supported by
advisory groups with representation from all
responsible authorities and stakeholder forums.

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EU Floods Directive Implementation Option 1
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Alternative

• SEPA Responsible for Preliminary Flood Risk
  Assessment and Flood Mapping and production of a
  National Plan
• LA- Responsible production of Catchment Plans
• Includes- duty to determine significant risk
• These plans would cover all forms of flood risk
  management and duties not undertaken by LAs,
  e.g. flood warning.
• Potential for 50 catchment plans
• SEPA would be responsible for collating these
  plans and producing a plan to submit to Europe.