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Huw Irranca-Davies

60

Clause  27,  page  15,  line  34,  leave out ‘flood and coastal erosion risk management

in Wales’ and insert ‘Welsh authorities’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

61

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

‘(6)	For the purposes of subsection (5)—

(a)	an “English authority” is—

(i)	a lead local flood authority, district council or highway authority

for an area in England, and

(ii)	an internal drainage board for an internal drainage district that is

wholly or mainly in England;

(b)	a “Welsh authority” is—

(i)	a lead local flood authority or highway authority for an area in

Wales, and

(ii)	an internal drainage board for an internal drainage district that is

wholly or mainly in Wales.’.

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

137

Page  15,  line  36,  leave out Clause 28.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

138

Clause  29,  page  16,  line  23,  after ‘consult’, leave out to end of subsection (4) and

insert—

‘(a)	the authorities that would be affected by it,

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(b)	the public.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

139

Schedule  1,  page  32,  line  5,  after ‘environment’, add ‘; including defined

geographical areas of landscape.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To make certain that areas of green space important to the avoidance of flooding are clearly able

to be designated as well as more obvious physical features such as woods, dykes or watercourses.

Mr Roger Williams

Martin Horwood

Miss Anne McIntosh

Angela Watkinson

129

Schedule  1,  page  32,  line  7,  leave out ‘affects’ and insert ‘is likely to have a

material effect on’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

25

Schedule  1,  page  32,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(6)	Condition 5 is that a designating authority may only designate infrastructure if

this does not compromise its primary purpose.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

140

Schedule  1,  page  32,  line  18,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘except where routine

maintenance or maintenance for safety purposes is required of a structure, and where

routine maintenance or use or good management is required of a natural or man-made

feature of the environment.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To ensure that every act of routine maintenance, agriculture or good land or woodland

management in or to a designated feature doesn’t require bureaucratic approval or put the owner

or manager at risk of prosecution.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

141

Schedule  1,  page  32,  line  36,  leave out ‘affect’ and insert ‘significantly increase’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To raise the bar for refusal of consent so that the designating authority has to show the action

proposed would actually increase flood risk to the point where other considerations such as

ecology, health and safety etc would be outweighed.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

142

Schedule  1,  page  35,  line  24,  after second ‘the’, insert ‘reasonable’.

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Member’s explanatory statement

To prevent this Schedule being a general get-out for any loss or damage caused unreasonably. At

present it simply has to be shown that it was the result of a power of entry exercised under 13(1)

which will be true in almost every case.

Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

160

Schedule  1,  page  35,  line  42,  after ‘consent’, insert ‘or conditions’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

4

Schedule  2,  page  39,  line  35,  after ‘of’, insert ‘re-instating’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

64

Schedule  2,  page  40,  line  10,  leave out ‘Conditions 1 and 3 are satisfied’ and

insert—

‘(a)	Conditions 1 and 3 are satisfied, or

(b)	Conditions 1 and 4 are satisfied.’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

65

Schedule  2,  page  40,  line  23,  leave out ‘carrying out’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

66

Schedule  2,  page  40,  line  25,  leave out paragraph (a).

Huw Irranca-Davies

67

Schedule  2,  page  40,  line  29,  at end insert—

‘(7A)

Condition 4 is that the purpose of the work is to manage a flood risk in the

authority’s area from the sea and either—

(a)	the work is within subsection (8)(a), (b) or (f), or

(b)	the Environment Agency has consented to the work.’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

143

Schedule  2,  page  40,  line  33,  after ‘structures’, insert ‘and natural or man-made

features of the environment’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To ensure that this Schedule does not slip back into treating flood risk management as the

maintenance of hard defences, ignoring natural features. Other subsections refer to natural

processes but not features.

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Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

5

Schedule  2,  page  40,  line  44,  after ‘of’, insert ‘re-instating’.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

144

Schedule  2,  page  45,  line  38,  after ‘structures’, insert ‘and natural or man-made

features of the environment’.

Member’s explanatory statement

To ensure that this Schedule does not slip back into treating flood risk management as the

maintenance of hard defences, ignoring natural features. Other subsections refer to natural

processes but not features.

Martin Horwood

Mr Roger Williams

6

Schedule  2,  page  46,  line  3,  after ‘of’, insert ‘re-instating’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

149

Schedule  3,  page  47,  leave out lines 36 to 39 and insert—

‘(1)	In this Schedule “drainage system” means—

(a)	a structure designed to receive rainwater except—

(i)	a public sewer, or

(ii)	a natural watercourse; and

(b)	any lateral drain or sewer communicating with a drainage system.’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

150

Schedule  3,  page  48,  leave out lines 4 and 5 and insert—

‘(3)	“Lateral drain”, “sewer” and “public sewer” have the meanings given by section

219(1) of the Water Industry Act 1991.’.

Miss Anne McIntosh

Angela Watkinson

18

Schedule  3,  page  48,  line  8,  leave out paragraph 2 and insert—

‘“Sustainable Urban Drainage System” means a drainage system which—

(a)	facilitates attenuation, settlement or treatment of surface water from two

or more premises (whether or not together with road water), and

(b)	includes one or more of the following:

(i)

inlet;

(ii)	outlet structures;

(iii)

swales;

(iv)	constructed wetlands;

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(v)

ponds;

(vi)	filter trenches;

(vii)

attenuation tanks, and

(viii)

detention basins (together with any associated pipes and

equipment).’.

Miss Anne McIntosh

Angela Watkinson

30

Schedule  3,  page  48,  line  37,  leave out ‘consult’ and insert ‘as soon as possible

instigate, publish and have regard to a review undertaken by a panel of independent

persons pertaining to the costs currently incurred by local authorties in maintaining

private sewers before the Schedule is commenced’.

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)’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

148

Schedule  3,  page  51,  line  25,  at end insert—

‘(e)	Internal Drainage Boards, if the approving body thinks that the drainage

system may directly or indirectly involve the discharge of water into an

Internal Drainage District.’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

68

Schedule  3,  page  51,  line  28,  after ‘applicant’ insert ‘or, in the case of a combined

application, the planning authority,’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

158

Schedule  3,  page  52,  line  6,  at end insert—

‘(6)	The Minister may issue guidance about what amounts may be required by way of

non-performance bonds; and approving bodies must have regard to the

guidance.’.

Miss Anne McIntosh

Angela Watkinson

33

Schedule  3,  page  52,  line  16,  leave out ‘significantly’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

151

Schedule  3,  page  52,  leave out lines 19 and 20 and insert—

‘(1)	The Minister shall by order provide for the enforcement of—

(a)	the requirement for approval in paragraph 7(1); and

(b)	the duty to maintain in paragraph 21.’.

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Schedule  3,  page  53,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘Guidance

14A	The Minister may issue guidance about the process of seeking and obtaining

approval; and approving bodies must have regard to the guidance.’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

152

Schedule  3,  page  53,  line  19,  leave out ‘Where’ and insert ‘Subject to section

106AA below, where’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

153

Schedule  3,  page  53,  line  24,  at end insert—

‘106AA

Communication with sustainable drainage systems

(1)	This section applies to drainage systems the construction of which requires

approval under Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010

(sustainable drainage).

(2)	Terms and expressions used in Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management

Act 2010 shall have the same meanings in this section.

(3)	The communication of a drainage system with a public sewer or other works

owned by or vested in a sewerage undertaker may not be approved or effected by

an approving body or other person except in accordance with this section.

(4)	An approving body or other person wishing to approve or effect the

communication of a drainage system with a public sewer or other works of a

sewerage undertaker shall give notice of its or his proposals to the sewerage

undertaker.

(5)	At any time within 21 days after a sewerage undertaker receives a notice under

subsection (4) above, the undertaker may by notice to the person who gave the

notice refuse permission for the communication to be made, or grant permission

for the communication subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, subject to taking

into account the considerations set out in subsection (6) below.

(6)	The considerations which the sewerage undertaker is to take into account include

whether the communication of the drainage system with the public sewer or other

works of the sewerage undertaker may contribute towards one or more of the

following—

(a)	the overloading of the public sewer or other works of the sewerage

undertaker, and the consequential overflowing of its or their contents and

the flooding of adjoining property or land;

(b)	the overloading of any sewage disposal works, so adversely affecting

such works’ capacity to treat or dispose of sewage in compliance with

any statutory requirement or consent applicable to it;

(c)	increased flows in and resulting overflows and discharges from

combined foul and surface water sewers, which may have adverse effects

on the aquatic environment, or which may cause the undertaker to be in

breach of a statutory requirement or consent applicable to the discharge;

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(d)	the pollution of inland waters, the flooding of property or land, or the

impairment of river or drainage systems, whether or not arising from any

of the matters described in paragraphs (a) to (c) above.

(7)	Any question arising under subsections (4) to (6) above between a sewerage

undertaker and any other person as to the reasonableness of the undertaker’s

refusal to permit a communication to be made, or the reasonableness of the

conditions on which the undertaker is prepared to permit a communication to be

made may, on the applications of that person, be determined in accordance with

regulations made under paragraph 24 of Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water

Management Act 2010.

(8)	In this section, “inland waters” has the meaning given by the Water Resources

Act 1991.’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

154

Schedule  3,  page  53,  line  25,  leave out ‘After’ and insert ‘Subject to section

106AA above, after’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

69

Schedule  3,  page  54,  line  19,  at beginning insert ‘Subsections (3A) and (3B)

apply’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

70

Schedule  3,  page  54,  line  20,  after ‘adopted)’, insert—

‘(3A)

’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

71

Schedule  3,  page  54,  line  24,  at end insert—

‘(3B)

The maintaining authority must designate the road under section 63 of the New

Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (streets with special engineering difficulties).’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

72

Schedule  3,  page  54,  line  27,  at end insert ‘(and a reference to a road includes a

reference to part of a road).’.

Angela Watkinson

Miss Anne McIntosh

155

Schedule  3,  page  54,  line  36,  leave out ‘becomes responsible for maintaining’ and

insert ‘shall be under a duty to maintain’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

73

Schedule  3,  page  55,  line  34,  leave out ‘and’.

Huw Irranca-Davies

74

Schedule  3,  page  55,  line  37,  at end insert ‘, and

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