The following organisations kindly gave their time and resources to support our event to raise awareness of community resilience and the role of the emergency services and others who are deployed in an emergency. Notts Police Emergency Planning Notts Fire and Rescue Service Environment Agency … Read more »
Community Resilience Day – 15th May – everyone welcome
“Supporting a Resilient Southwell” event will take place between 10:30 and 16:00 on Sunday 15th May 2016 at Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst campus See information about the talks, speakers and training sessions here This day will be of interest for everyone, not only those at risk at flooding, but for all who could be… Read more »
National Flood Forum Bulletin – April 2016
This month t look at the new Flood Re insurance scheme with an introduction from Flood Re CEO, Brendan McCafferty, along with some of your views on the very live issue of insurance. The problem faced by small businesses in finding affordable insurance was raised at this week’s Prime Ministers Questions (PMQs), with David Cameron… Read more »
Community Resilience Handbook
This Handbook has been produced by Southwell Flood Forum and Southwell Town Council as a useful handbook to build personal and community resilience and reference for use before and during an emergency. It was launched on May 15th 2016 at a huge community resilience event at Brackenhurst and delivered to every household in Southwell. You… Read more »
The Worsfold Review on Government’s Flood and Coastal Risk Management
The independent peer review was conducted by Mark Worsfold, Chief Engineer at Ofwat. It looked at the maintenance of the Environment Agency’s flood and coastal risk management (FCRM) assets. Link to the Report here The Environment Agency has replied to the Worsfold Review here Environmental Audit Committee – EAC: Following another winter of severe UK… Read more »
Helping to reduce flood risk in Southwell – a developer’s view
The old Rainbow freight yard at the Burgage, Southwell provides a very good example of the opportunities presented by the redevelopment of previously-used sites in helping to tackle local flood risks. Built before modern planning laws came into place, all the hard-surfaces within this former industrial site added to the load on local drainage infrastructure,… Read more »
Presentation on The impact of climate change – 9th March 2016
The impact of climate change 4.00pm-6.30pm Wednesday 9th March 2016 Nottingham Sustainability & Enterprise Centre New College, Basford Hall, Stockhill Lane, NG6 0NB The recent severe storms and floods that affected many parts of the UK demonstrated the increasing impacts of climate change on our local environment. This event features presentations from: – Environment Agency –… Read more »
Minster School helps with ‘Clean for the Queen’
On Monday 7th March, the group took part in the national ‘Clean for the Queen’ campaign. Read more
DEFRA and DECC publish their departmental plans 2015-2020
The Defra 2015-2020 plan Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs publishes its departmental plan for 2015-2020, outlining priority areas in flooding, air pollution and wildlife diversity The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released its five-year plan for delivering a cleaner, healthier environment while encouraging growth and prosperity in the UK’s… Read more »
Citizen Science Sunday
This event has been postponed – we will be in contact with a further date. Citizen Science Sunday on Sunday 20th March 2016 is a resilience event to help us understand our flood risk better in Southwell, which will inform our Community Resilience and Emergency Plan. The information collected at the event will directly form the basis for the new maps to be… Read more »
