Planning for future flooding in Wales
TAN(W)14, coastal protection, provides technical guidance on coastal flood risk and coastal defences, and TAN(W)15, development and flood risk are Technical Advice Notes on future planning.
The WAG Environmental Research Programme supports the Assembly’s strategic agenda for Wales – A Better Country - which sets the vision for a sustainable future where action for social, economic and environmental improvement work together to create positive change. The agenda identifies the need for action in our built and natural environment that enhances pride in the community, supports biodiversity, promotes local employment and helps to minimise waste generation, energy and transport demands.
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This company provided technical advice on the coastal protection scheme in Towyn, NE Wales and also undertook an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as required under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment, England and Wales) regulations 1999. The proposed scheme was approved in 2004.
One of the environmental reports in the Wales section describes the flood defence and other environmental issues in Cardiff Bay.
Shoreline Development Plans SMP have been set up to produce sustainable policies for coastal defence.
The main objectives in developing an SMP are to:
- improve understanding of the coastal processes within the sediment cell;
- predict the likely future evolution of the coast;
identify all the assets within the area covered by the Plan which are likely to be affected by coastal change;
- identify the need for regional or site specific research and investigations;
- facilitate consultation between those bodies with an interest in the shoreline.
Four key issues need to be addressed in the preparation of a Shoreline Management Plan. These are:
- coastal processes;
- coastal defences;
- land use and the human and built environment;
- the natural environment.
To inform decisions of SMPs DEFRA and WAG commissioned the futureCOAST project. This report, undertaken by Halcrow Group Ltd., is a report on shoreline evolution over the next 100years. Published in 2002, it provides information for every part of the Welsh coastline on local coastal processes and the assessment of the effects of climate change. The information, including maps, aerial photographs and analysis is on CD Roms made available to SMPs
shows the work of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Wales
Wales Assembly Government, Technical Advice Note TAN 15 - Development and flood risk, 2004 provides a framework within which risks arising from:
river flooding;
coastal flooding;
additional run-off from development of buildings in any location,
can be assessed.
The Environment Agency Wales has written a detailed account of Flooding in Wales, Autumn 2000. The causes of the event, details of its impact throughout Wales, a review of the E A future strategy for flood forecasting, flood warning and flood emergency response all feature.
describes the sustainable management of the R. Dee Regulation scheme. A large public water supply is combined with reduction of flooding. Fishing, recreational activities and HEP are also compatible uses of the river basin.
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