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Public Services
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Flood Forum 2008
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National Flood Forum - Tony Coates Board Member/Trustee
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| Ban the Sandbag!
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- Managing flood risk is not just about building more hard engineered defences
- Simple but effective solutions can mitigate the effect flooding has on a home or business
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Our Chief Exec come from Worcester
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Case Study: Worcester Action Against Flooding
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- Worcester doesn’t qualify for flood defences under the government’s priority score.
- Hylton Road floods twice a year, flooding homes, shutting a main access road and causing financial loss to businesses
- Worcester Action Against Flooding lobbied MP and the Minister for flooding and Worcester City Council
- Result?……
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- Worcester was selected to trial the kite marked temporary defence seen here
- The Pallet Barrier
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February 2004 - Tested in Anger….. |
..... Passed with Flying Colours! |
Upton Upon Severn January 2007
A Door Board in use during a Flood
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Anti back flow valves
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Airbrick covers
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Airbrick covers
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Veneer walling
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Example of retractable membrane
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Blue pages
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| Repairing your home or business after a flood - how to limit damage and disruption in the future
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Aldwick Way, Lowestoft
| Drainage ditch behind property
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| Kitchen during the flood
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- Ceramic floors
- Limelite plaster walls
- Plastic skirting boards
- Rising butt hinges with lightweight doors
- Sockets raised above the dado rail
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| Bottom step was concreted |
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- New steel kitchen units, with base units raised off the
- Main appliances raised (on plinths), with new sockets
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| A non insurance claim in Oxford
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| DIY flood door ~ which worked!
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POWERS OF LOCAL COUNCILS
A Local Council
may drain, clean or cover or otherwise deal with a pond, pool, ditch, gutter used for the collection of any drainage, filth, stagnant water …
Public Health Act 1936 s260(1)
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Local Councils – The “Free Resource”
Town Councils or Parish Councils may spend some money for any purpose which in its opinion is in the interests of or will directly benefit the area or its inhabitants, or of part of it, or of some of them. “Flooding” is an item in an extensive list.
LGA 1972 s.137 and later amendments
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The Power of Well-Being
The ‘power of well-being’ is the informal name given to the statutory power enabling a local authority to "do anything which it considers likely to achieve the promotion or improvement of the economic, social or environmental well-being of their area."
Local Government Act 2000 s2
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Noah was aware…… and he took action!
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