​Scottish flood risk management

Issued: April 2016

Flooding in Scotland has the potential to affect one in 13 businesses and one in 22 homes. The central belt, traditionally Scotland’s industrial and residential heart, is at the greatest risk.

New plans to manage risk

The …

​Solving development challenges in Scotland

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

Dura Den after the flood

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 …