Issue - meetings

This report provides an overview of the Epsom and Ewell Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Update 2018 (SFRA 2018).  The SFRA update is an important evidence base document that informs the allocation of sites in the Local Plan, future policy formation and planning applications and decisions.

The Committee received and noted the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment update 2018 (SFRA2108), and the summary report.

The Committee received a report providing an overview of the Epsom & Ewell Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Update 2018 (SFRA 2018), and noted its importance as an evidence base document that informed the allocation of sites in the Local Plan as well as future policy formation and planning applications/decisions.

It was acknowledged that the SFRA outcomes could inform the preparation of future site allocations and their associated policies. However it was noted that SFRA updated conclusions had not altered significantly since the previous assessment, and would not therefore extensively change the Council’s plans for future growth in the borough.

Officers agreed to investigate an area on the map (adjacent to South Hatch) which members noted had previously experienced a flood event but which had not been identified as a flood risk area in the SFRA update.

Accordingly the Committee noted the Strategic Flood Risk Assessment update 2018 (SFRA2108), and the summary report.