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Inquiry into Flood Mitigation and Resilience

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment will be holding evidence sessions for it 3rd inquiry, in late November/early December 2014 with a report to follow in the New Year.

This inquiry will look at the problems caused to the UK by flooding and examine the potential for greater mitigation of these problems and significantly improving flood resilience including the potential for adaptation to changing environmental pressures.

The Commission Members:

Oliver Colvile MP (chairman), George Adams, Peter Aldous MP, Professor Richard Ashley, Peter Bonfield OBE, Tony Burton, Sue Illman, The Earl of Lytton (vice chairman) Jack Pringle, Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP (vice chairman)

A full copy of the report can be found here

Submissions

  • Arup
  • Augean Plc
  • BRE
  • CIRIA
  • F P McCann
  • Floodline Developments
  • Heriot-Watt University
  • Hydro Consultancy
  • Institution of Civil Engineers
  • Kent County Council
  • LABC
  • Landscape Institute
  • Robert Mann
  • Royal Institute of British Architects
  • Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
  • Shropshire Council
  • The Prince’s Foundation
  • Watkins Design Associates

Sessions

First Session

ARUP – Will McBain and Dr Faye Beaman

BRE – Stephen Garvin

CIRIA – Paul Shaffer

Hydro Consultancy – David Schofield

Second Session

Floodline Developments – Espen Østbye-Strøm and Justin Meredith

Institution of Civil Engineers – Andrew Wescott and Brian Rodgers

Royal Academy of Engineering’s Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design at Herriot-Watt University – Dr David Kelly and Professor Dorte-Rich Jorgensen

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Alan Cripps and Philip Wilbourn

Third Session

Landscape Institute – Paul Lincoln & Stuart Ryder

Royal Institute of British Architects – Emilia Plotka & Robert Barker

Shropshire Council – David Edwards

Watkins Design Associates– Simon Watkins, Julian Jones, Sue Charlesworth

Kent County Council – Brownyn Buntine & Max Tant