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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the potential benefit to high flood risk areas of restoring drained wetlands and allowing them to flood.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what assessment he has made of the potential benefit to high flood risk areas of restoring drained wetlands and allowing them to flood.
Asked by
David Chaytor
(Labour)
Answered by
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
25 January 2001
For answer on
30 January 2001
Answered on
30 January 2001
Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment he has made of the
potential benefit to high flood risk areas of restoring drained wetlands and allowing them to flood. [147978]
Ms Beverley Hughes: No specific assessment has been made but current flood management practices provide a measure of flood relief to
urban properties in high-risk areas by allowing undeveloped land to flood. The benefits of managed retreat in coastal and estuarial
situations have been recognised for some time and this is one of the options identified for assessment through shoreline management
plans.
MAFF and the Environment Agency are currently developing guidance on river catchment assessments that will lead to catchment flood
management plans. The restoration of floodplain functions and washlands is likely to be one of the management options that will be
considered in such plans. The revised draft PPG 25, on which we will be consulting shortly, will emphasise the need to consider
flooding issues at the river catchment level. It will specifically advise that local plans should identify sites where managed
realignment of coastal defences or restoration of functions to flood plains, could contribute to more sustainable flood management,
as well as to amenity, landscape and biodiversity objectives.
Subjects
Coastal areas; Flood control; Planning; Wetlands
Date
30 January 2001
Reference
147978; 362 c127W;362 c128W
House
House of Commons