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  • Winter is coming

    Posted on 29/11/2016 by Ed Hammond | emergency planning, flooding, governance and scrutiny

    With winter comes emergencies and floods. Last year, we published a detailed blogpost setting out some ideas for practitioners – this post is just intended as a gentle reminder, now we’re heading into the season when this kind of thing now happens with alarming regularity - starting with the first winter storm of the season last week. Council scrutiny functions have unique powers to oversee local flood risk management plans (originally brought in by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009). This follows the significant success that scrutiny had in some areas (especially Gloucestershire) engaging with the Environment ...

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