Environment Agency launches new flooding Action Plan
The Environment Agency s FCERM Strategy Action Plan will help to better protect over hundreds of thousands more homes and businesses in the years ahead.
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12 May 2021
Communities, local authorities and government working together is crucial if we are to tackle the climate emergency, the Environment Agency said today, as it launched its annual Action Plan to help protect England from flooding and coastal erosion.
England currently remains on course for 59 per cent more winter rainfall and once-a-century sea level events every year by 2100 and major adaptation will be required to meet the changing climate picture.
Future Fens flood risk management
Fens flood risk management baseline report now available.
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11 May 2021
Phase 1 of the flood risk management work started 3 years ago, to develop a shared understanding of the flood risk challenges in the Great Ouse Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.
Future activity will build on this baselining work to develop flood management options that can deliver flood and drainage infrastructure needed for future generations.
This work is delivering on key commitments to the Fens as featured in the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy (FCERM) published in 2020.
With a third of the Fens currently below sea level, the area has a network of flood protection assets that are owned and managed by different organisations. Much of this infrastructure is nearing the end of its design life and will soon need significant investment. With the increasing effects of climate change, flood infrastructure is key in providing water resourc
Former treasurer charged with fleecing junior football team out of £30,000
Ian Martin Warsap is due to appear at Lincoln Crown Court in May
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Ian Warsap during his time as a coach of the Louth Old Boys under nines team (Image: Grimsby & Scunthorpe Newspapers)
A former Louth building firm boss has been charged with stealing around £30,000 from the junior football team where he was treasurer for 11 years.
Ian Martin Warsap, 63, from Louth, is charged with committing fraud by abuse of his position as treasurer of the Louth Old Boys Football Club between January 1 2006 and July 1 2017.
He is accused of dishonestly making cheques out to himself and cashing them in his personal bank account and it is understood the amount involved is in the region of £30,000.
Flood and coastal resilience innovation programme
How to submit an expression of an interest to become part of innovative action on flooding and coastal change.
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EOI) forms has been extended from 15 January 2021 to 29 January 2021.
In the 2020 Budget, the government announced a £200 million fund for this programme. The flood and coastal resilience innovation programme will help meet the aims set out in the:
The programme will allocate £150 million of the £200 million to 25 local areas. For some, a local area might be a county, city, town or village. For others, a place could mean a river catchment, a tidal estuary or part of the coast. On average each area will receive £6 million between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2027.