Brent has many waterways, some on open ground but others hidden underground in conduits that reveal their presence at times of flooding. Extreme weather, including heavy rainfall, has made the area more susceptible to flooding, exacerbated by an increase in the number of impermeable surfaces in developments and front and back gardens.
Brent Council is consulting on a new Local Flood Management Risk Strategy and invites contributions from local residents, community groups, organisations and businesses. The RAG rated Action Plan on the consultation website reveals the amount of work to be done with a predominance of Red ratings.
Extract from Action Plan
The Consultation website can be found HERE:
Local Flood Risk Management Strategy Consultation
We want to hear from you.
Residents, community groups, and organisations have a chance to help shape our flood risk strategy.
Periodically we update the strategy which you have the chance to shape. It focuses mainly on where flooding risk areas are, how we will deal with a flood, and putting things in place to reduce the risk of flooding.
You have until 31st December 2024, so please do give your feedback and help shape your local environment.
What are we consulting on?
The Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) are consulting community stakeholders, internal council teams and Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) and partner organisations on our Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS). This document explains the different sources of flooding and the actions the Council will take to meet its strategic objectives for the management of Borough-wide flood risk for all applicable flood sources.
Why are we consulting?
Section 9 of the Flood and Water Management Act enacted in 2010 (FWMA) stipulates that the LLFA should develop, maintain, apply and monitor a strategy for local flood risk management in its area. The FWMA also requires that the LLFA consult RMAs that may be affected by the Strategy and the public. The LLFA are therefore requesting feedback from community stakeholders and RMAs as well as internally via Brent employees to take any feedback on board and make changes to the LFRMS ahead of finalising in Spring 2025.
For information please contact: highways.management@brent.gov.uk
7 comments:
First thing is to stop people concreting over their entire front gardens for parking, building huge concrete storage buildings in their back gardens and building big extensions all around their properties - all of this contributes to flooding - where is the water supposed to go???
I agree with the above. When I moved here [Preston area] 30 years ago it was a conservation area and people needed permission to concrete over their gardens.
However the biggest risk in my street is the fact that every single drain in the road is blocked, full of leaves and mud. Every time there is a storm more mud and leaves get brushed in. I have complained multiple times with no action taken. The road quickly turns into a river when there is a heavy storm, and it is very frightening.
With all the concreted gardens the road will turn into a river because the water has no where to go!
Our friends lived in their house for 32 years with no problems - people moved in next door and built a huge side and back extension and our friends house suddenly got badly flooded when it rained, everything on ground floor destroyed - insurance company paid out but the hassle was immense and now everytime it rains our friends get stressed out.
Powerful developer interests also clearly conflict with safeguarding the public from increasing flood risk in Brent.
Declaring a 45 ha 51m tall building zone on public land to massively raise land value, but if that land is entirely located inside the Maida Vale Food Area (see London Flooding Review Stage 3 map of this 'bowl'/'low spot'), then there is clearly a conflict in council decision- making choice between urban flood safety and land value re-development population growth zoned.
Brent LLFA Section 19 Flood Investigation Reports (Flood and Water Management Act 2010) into the July 2021 (12th and 25th) floods in South Kilburn tall building zone.
This was meant to be published early 2023. Maybe the Liberal Democrat Councillors can make this now happen?
Why Liberal Democrats? Labour are the majority at this council - what are they doing?
Why not if the majority party in power is sitting on this important S19 Report on flooding in a tall building zone?
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