2007: the summer floods affect several key substations, highlight their potential vulnerability to major flood incidents and prompt a national review. Network owners assess levels of flood risk to substations in their area with the Environment Agency (EA) and make …
2012: the government launches its second tender process for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in the UK. The White Rose project at the coal-fired Drax power station in North Yorkshire, and a gas-fired Shell power station in …
Flood map data for the flood zone of a minor watercourse in Nottinghamshire restricts the number of properties in a planned 87-unit housing development.
Flood map data used for planning purposes is sometimes based on coarse modelling techniques that can …
An 80-unit residential development is proposed for a factory site prone to groundwater-dominated river flooding in Wiltshire. Barriers to planning consent have left the client on the verge of dropping the development.
Several years of modelling analysis and negotiation with …
The Huntingdon racecourse and hotel are on the floodplain of the Alconbury Brook and prone regular floods. Access to the site and facilities is jeopardised.
A plan to raise the access road was strongly opposed by the Environment Agency (EA) …
130 dwellings on 4.5 hectares of largely greenfield land in Solihull. A natural watercourse crosses the site and flows into a narrow culvert under a local road, making it prone to flooding.
Planning conditions for development included:
Issued: April 2016
Development invariably affects the local movement of water, particularly in rural, upland and river locations. Measures to reduce the impact of development in these challenging environments, as elsewhere, must be well-founded, practical and cost effective.
WHS is …
Sometimes our work is focused on a single house.
A house by a river, in a gorge.
Flashback
In October 2012, the stream, the Ceres Burn, became blocked. In heavy flows, debris had gathered at a weir and footbridge, and …
Construction of the Mynydd y Gwair onshore wind farm in South Wales started in January 2017.
This 16-turbine, 33.6 MW, project will create an average of up to 104 equivalent full-time jobs in each year of construction. It is expected …
New guidance from the Environment Agency requires all new development and local plans to take increased flood risk into account, due to climate change, and to demonstrate how the risk will be managed.
Published in February 2016, the guidance is …