Amongst the recent floods, there is a story from Pickering which is giving hope to the towns and villages which were affected. Pickering has been flooded time and time again but this time remained dry due to a new, cost effective flood defence called ‘Slowing the Flow’. Following a series of devastating floods, spanning from 1999 to… Read more »
Robert Jenrick’s speech in the Parliamentary debate on flooding on 6th January 2016
Robert Jenrick (Newark) (Con): I am fortunate that my Newark constituency has not been seriously flooded in this winter’s flooding, but it has been among the worst-flooded of any constituency in the country over the past few years. Forty towns and villages in my constituency have been flooded in the past three years alone, including… Read more »
Debate in Parliament on Flooding – 6th January 2016
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs made a statement on Tuesday 5 January on flooding and was questioned by MPs about it. You can watch the statement and questions here: http://goo.gl/qGRZX6 You can read the statement and questions here: http://goo.gl/D5HE7g On Thursday 6 January, the House of Commons debated flooding. You… Read more »
Discussion on floods – Radio 5 Live – Thursday 7th January 2016 – features Jillian Labadz of NTU Brackenhurst
Peter Allen holding a discussion of the floods on Radio 5 Live, with an audience and panel including Government Floods Envoy Robert Goodwill MP (on the telephone, he was not in the room with the audience) York and Leeds City Council leaders (Judith Blake and Chris Steward) Shadow Floods Minister Alex Cunningham MP Architect Robert… Read more »
EFRA Committee Interview the Environment Agency
Scope of the inquiry – This one-off session was organised in response to Storm Desmond in early December. The first panel comprises of representatives from Cumbria. Since then, Storms Eva and Frank have brought flooding to Yorkshire and Lancashire as well as continued flooding to Cumbria. The second panel with the Environment Agency looks at flooding… Read more »
Pickering’s natural flood management scheme works
How a town in Yorkshire worked with nature to stay dry One notorious Yorkshire flood blackspot was celebrating staying dry – despite having been refused a multimillion pound defence scheme. They built 167 leaky dams of logs and branches – which let normal flows through but restrict and slow down high ones – in the… Read more »
Paul Cobbing – Chief Executive, National Flood Forum on Radio 4 PM
Paul’s interview on 29th December 2015 with Eddie Mair – during the flooding in Cumbria and Yorkshire. He describes types of flood defences and how important the community’s knowledge is when designing flood management solutions.
10 measures that must be taken to prevent more flooding in the future
1. Introduce better flood warning systems 2. Modify homes and businesses to help them withstand floods 3. Construct buildings above flood levels 4. Tackle climate change 5. Increase spending on flood defences 6. Protect wetlands and introduce plant trees strategically 7. Restore rivers to their natural courses 8. Introduce water storage areas 9. Improve soil… Read more »
Today programme on Radio 4 – interview with Jillian Labadz
Jillian Labadz of Nottingham Trent University talks on flood mitigation – 28th December 2015
CIWEM/National Flood Forum Conference 2015
Tim Farr (Chair), Jacky Huson, James Parker, Jillian Labadz (Nottingham Trent University lecturer) and Josh Wells (NTU PhD student) attended the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)/NFF conference this year on December 2nd in London at the hastily rearranged venue of Cavendish Conference Centre. The conference was attended by around 150 people drawn… Read more »
