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‘New Roads and Street Works Act 1991

26	At the end of section 63 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (streets

with special engineering difficulties) insert—

“(5)	In addition to criteria for designation prescribed under subsection

(2)(a), Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010

requires designation in certain circumstances (relating to sustainable

drainage systems).”’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

79

Clause  15,  page  11,  line  28,   leave out ‘authorities in England’ and insert—

‘(i)	lead local flood authorities for areas in England, and

(ii)	the Environment Agency in respect of a failure to comply with a

request in connection with a flood or coastal erosion risk

management function in relation to England, and’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

80

Clause  15,  page  11,  line  30,  leave out ‘authorities in Wales’ and insert—

‘(i)	lead local flood authorities for areas in Wales,

(ii)	the Environment Agency in respect of a failure to comply with a

request in connection with a flood or coastal erosion risk

management function in relation to Wales, and

(iii)

the Welsh Ministers.’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

81

Clause  15,  page  11,  line  31,  at end add—

‘(11)

A reference in this section to an authority includes a reference to the Welsh

Ministers.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

82

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  12,  after ‘waters,’, insert—

‘(da)

groundwater.’

Member’s explanatory statement

Add groundwater specifically into key concept of flooding, makes it consistent with local

provisions and beyond doubt in national ones.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

83

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  12,  after ‘waters,’, insert—

‘(da)

surface water flooding from whatever original source,’

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

84

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  14,  leave out subsection (3).

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Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

85

Clause  3,  page  2,  line  37,  at end insert—

‘(da)

managing the use of land, natural habitats, woodland and other natural

landscape features with the result of reducing flood risk or reducing

erosion,’

Member’s explanatory statement

To reinforce landscape-scale approach and explicitly include natural landscape management as

well as building and defending. ‘Result’ used not ‘aim’ as aim should be sustainability/wider

environmental objectives.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

86

Clause  7,  page  4,  line  35,  leave out ‘risk’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Blueprint for Water submission. Replace risk-based approach with more holistic approach to

flood and coastal erosion management.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

87

Clause  7,  page  4,  line  37,  leave out ‘risk’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Blueprint for Water submission. Replace risk-based approach with more holistic approach to

flood and coastal erosion management.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

88

Clause  7,  page  4,  line  38,  leave out ‘risk’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Blueprint for Water submission. Replace risk-based approach with more holistic approach to

flood and coastal erosion management.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

89

Clause  7,  page  4,  line  41,  leave out ‘risk’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Blueprint for Water submission. Replace risk-based approach with more holistic approach to

flood and coastal erosion management.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

90

Clause  7,  page  5,  line  1,  after ‘managing’, insert ‘all’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

91

Clause  7,  page  5,  line  3,  at end insert—

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‘(ea)

how the strategy and risk management functions are to be communicated

with a view to providing a single communication route for all members

of the public concerned about flooding,’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

92

Clause  7,  page  5,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘(ba)

national registered charities whose aims under section 2 (2)(i) of the

Charities Act 2006 include the advancement of environmental protection

or improvement,

(bb)	Natural England,

(bc)	Regional Flood and Coastal Erosion Committees as established under

section 22,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To specifically include third sector environmental and conservation organisations, Natural

England and regional flood committees as statutory consultees on national strategy.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

93

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  12,  at end insert—

‘(3A)

The Welsh Ministers must consult—

(a)	risk management authorities in Wales,

(b)	the public,

(c)	Welsh national registered charities whose aims under section 2(2)(i) of

the Charities Act 2006 include the advancement of environmental

protection or improvement,

(d)	Countryside Council for Wales,

(e)	Welsh Regional Flood and Coastal Erosion Committees as established

under section 22.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

94

Clause  9,  page  6,  line  24,  leave out from second ‘risk’ to end of line 27 and insert

‘of any kind in a defined geographical area such as a district or unitary authority area.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

95

Clause  9,  page  6,  line  23,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

A lead local flood authority must gain the approval of the local flood risk

management strategy by its regional flood and coastal committee as established

in section 22.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

96

Clause  10,  page  7,  line  21,  leave out from second ‘risk’ to end of line 24 and insert

‘of any kind in a defined geographical area such as a district or unitary authority area.’.

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Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

97

Clause  10,  page  7,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

A lead local flood authority must gain the approval of the local flood risk

management strategy by its regional flood and coastal committee as established

in section 22.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

98

Clause  10,  page  8,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(8A)

Two or more lead local authorities sharing a common landscape area or water

catchment area may work together to produce a shared landscape-scale local

flood management strategy in their area.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

99

Clause  13,  page  9,  line  42,  at end insert ‘group of risk management authorities

working together, or’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Allows landscape-scale working, or even just collaborative project management between

neighbouring local authorities.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

100

Clause  14,  page  10,  line  25,  at end insert ‘reasonable’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Make sure requests are not onerous to individuals or company.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

101

Clause  15,  page  11,  line  23,  leave out ‘the Minister,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To limit important judicial powers of the executive and guarantee right of appeal to an

independent body.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

102

Clause  19,  page  12,  line  26,  after ‘authorities’, insert ‘and the Environment Agency

and Welsh Ministers’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To allow for Environment Agency or Welsh national investigations in the event of a flood in case

the local authority’s response needs to be investigated or in case the flood affects more than one

local authority area.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

103

Clause  19,  page  12,  line  27,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘or the Environment Agency or

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Welsh Ministers’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To allow for Environment Agency or Welsh national investigations in the event of a flood in case

the local authority’s response needs to be investigated or in case the flood affects more than one

local authority area.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

104

Clause  19,  page  12,  line  32,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘or the Environment Agency or

Welsh Ministers’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To allow for Environment Agency or Welsh national investigations in the event of a flood in case

the local authority’s response needs to be investigated or in case the flood affects more than one

local authority area.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

105

Clause  19,  page  12,  line  34,  at end add—

‘(c)	lay the report before Parliament, or in Wales, the National Assembly for

Wales.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To ensure any investigation report is publicly available and drawn to public attention.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

106

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  24,  at end insert ‘or are likely to have a significant effect

on public health and welfare if flooded, including—

‘(i)	sites and structures critical to energy supply,

(ii)	sites and structures critical to water processing and supply,

(iii)

critical railway lines, roads and bridges,

(iv)	telephone exchanges and other critical communications sites and

structures,

(v)	general hospitals, and

(vi)	any other local sites and structures considered critical by the

authority,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To introduce a register of critical infrastructure.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

107

Clause  21,  page  13,  line  26,  at end insert ‘and state of resilience to possible failure

due to flooding or coastal erosion.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Complements inclusion of critical infrastructure.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

108

Clause  24,  page  14,  line  29,  after ‘selection’, insert ‘, election’.

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Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

109

Clause  24,  page  14,  line  30,  after ‘appoint’, insert ‘or elect’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To enhance democracy

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

110

Clause  27,  page  15,  line  13,  leave out from ‘(1)’ to ‘; and’ in line 14.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

111

Clause  27,  page  15,  line  35,  at end add—

‘(6)	In this section “sustainable development” means development which enables all

people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality

of life, without compromising the quality of life of future generations, pursued in

an integrated way through a sustainable, innovative and productive economy that

delivers high levels of employment; and a just society that promotes social

inclusion, sustainable communities and personal wellbeing and will be done in

ways that protect and enhance the physical and natural environment, and use

resources and energy as efficiently as possible.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

112

Schedule  3,  page  49,  line  3,  leave out ‘county council’ and insert ‘local planning

authority (as defined in section 1 (1)(b) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990)’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

113

Clause  9,  page  7,  line  16,  at end add—

‘(10)

The Secretary of State shall as soon as possible instigate, publish and have regard

to a review undertaken by a panel of independent persons, including

representatives from local authorities, universities, professional institutions and

other bodies as the Secretary of State deems appropriate, pertaining to the training

that will be required for the lead local flood authorities to undertake the functions

conferred under this section before this section is commenced.’.

Approval of local flood risk management strategies (England)

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

NC23

To move the following Clause:—

‘The regional flood and coastal committee shall approve local flood risk

management strategies developed by lead local flood authorities for areas in

England as defined in section 9.’.

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Approval of local flood risk management strategies (Wales)

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

NC24

To move the following Clause:—

‘The regional flood and coastal committee shall approve local flood risk

management strategies developed by lead local flood authorities for areas in

Wales as defined in section 10.’.

Flood risk areas

Mr Laurence Robertson

NC25

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Environment Agency shall carry out an assessment of the whole of England

and Wales to determine which areas of land are at risk from flooding, and it shall

determine these as being “flood risk areas”.

(2)	For the purposes of this section, an area of land shall be designated as a flood risk

area if—

(a)	there is evidence of it having flooded in the past;

(b)	for the purposes of paragraph (a), an area shall be deemed to have flooded

if water has rested on the surface of the land, or just below the surface;

(c)	the local planning authority, or the Environment Agency after

consultation with the local planning authority, are of the opinion that

building on a section of land would be likely to increase the risk of other

pieces of land flooding as a result of water displacement; or

(d)	having consulted with the local planning authority, the Environment

Agency reasonably believes that the area might be subject to flooding in

the future.

(3)	If an area of land is designated as flood risk, the Environment Agency shall

submit a formal objection to any medium or large-scale planning application

which is proposed for that land.

(4)	For the purposes of subsection (3), a planning application shall be designated as

being medium or large-scale if it involves the building of more than 10 houses, or

if it involves the building of a public, commercial or industrial unit covering

larger than half an acre in land area.’.

Mr Roger Williams

Martin Horwood

Miss Anne McIntosh

Angela Watkinson

114

Clause  6,  page  4,  line  33,  at end insert—

‘(g)	Natural England.’.

Mr Roger Williams

Martin Horwood

Miss Anne McIntosh

Angela Watkinson

115

Clause  7,  page  5,  line  15,  at end insert—

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