Flood committee sets out £24M spending in North East

The Regional Flood and Coastal Committee sets out £24M commitment to protect homes and businesses in North East.

A flood and coastal group will set out the objectives for the next year, and oversee the spending of more than £24M to protect hundreds of homes across the North East.

The Northumbria Regional Flood and Coastal Committee has launched its business plan for 2016/2017, which will include work at Blyth, Killingworth, Hartlepool Headland Walls and Greatham South.

In NRFCC’s 2015/2016 annual report, it announced that it’s overseen 125 projects costing £27M over the past year. The annual report and business plan together summarise the past year and look forward to the year ahead.

When all the work is complete it will have reduced the risk to 1,458 properties, while also making improvements to the environment.

The projects are mostly carried out by the Environment Agency and local authorities. Others are carried out by, or in partnership with Northumbrian Water.

Projects include the completion of the Port Clarence scheme at Wilton Engineering’s site in Teesside, the Morpeth flood alleviation scheme’s upstream dam and storage area – which operated for the first time in January – the Fellgate Estate scheme in South Tyneside, as well as the coastal scheme at Skinningrove.

It is the second year of a six year programme of works, with the business plan updated each year to take into account any adjustments to the £108M programme.

NRFCC Chairman Jon Hargeaves said: “On completion of the £27million programme of works from 2015/16, we will see a reduction in flood and coastal erosion risk to 1,458 houses in the region, as well as delivering seven environmental projects.

“The committee is a great example of partnership working, with all local authorities, the Environment Agency and Northumbrian Water pulling together on behalf of residents and businesses in the North East.

“It’s been a challenging year involving major flooding this past winter which affected hundreds of properties across the region. The committee is keen to understand the impact of this flooding and the issues relating to it.

“At future meetings it will be discussed in further detail so we can make decisions moving forward into the years ahead.”

 

 

 

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