Issue - decisions

          The Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transport and the Head of Highways and Transport submitted a joint report setting out a proposed Swindon Flood Risk Management Strategy and Year One Action Plan.

          Councillor Dale Heenan, Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transport, explained that the Council was required by the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to develop, maintain, apply, and monitor a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for surface water, groundwater, and ordinary watercourses in its area. He referred to the problem of flooding and how the Council had worked with its partners to develop the Strategy. The draft Strategy had been prepared after extensive consultation. He highlighted the key issues in the Strategy and in the proposed first year Action Plan.

          Resolved – (1) That the Swindon Local Flood Risk Management Strategy and the year one Action Plan, as referred to in the joint report, be approved and adopted.

          (2) That the Head of Highways and Transport, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning, Sustainability, and Transport, be authorised to develop and publish annual action plans to deliver the objectives of the Swindon Local Flood Risk Management Strategy.

(Councillor Garry Perkins, Cabinet Member for the Economy, Regeneration and Skills made a personal and prejudicial declaration of interest in respect of the above item and left the room taking no part in the discussion, as he was the owner of a property within Swindon that had been subject to flooding.)

          The reasons for the decision and alternative options are as set out in the minute and in report to the meeting.