Issue - items at meetings - Flood Risk Management Plans

(copy attached).

38.1    Mr Robin Humphries (Civil Contingencies Manager, Brighton & Hove City Council), and Ms M aggie Moran (Flood Risk Management Officer, Brighton & Hove City Council) introduced the report. The report examined the risk of flooding within the city.

38.2    Councillor Peltzer Dunn thanked the officers for the report, and asked if a report detailing how effective the measures put in place to reduce the impact of flooding had been could be provided for the Committee in due course. The Chair agreed.

38.3    Councillor Deane asked what more could be done, such as resident involvement, to address drains being blocked. Ms Moran said that Highways Maintenance now maintained the gullies in the city, and there was now a more structured way of monitoring them than there had been before. The Council would be happy to with the LACs to address any noted blocked drains.

38.4    RESOLVED: That the report be noted.