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Representation ID: 66221

Received: 26/06/2014

Respondent: NFU

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

We are very concerned about Point f "the site is not required for washland creation as part of overall flood defence strategy for river catchments" and the section that says "land that is required for current and future flood management will be safeguarded from development". We can find no justification or explanation for this policy within the plan.
We would like more information on the definition of 'washland' as a concept.

We would like more information on the definition of 'washland' as a concept. In flood risk management 'washland' is defined both as:
* an area of the floodplain that is allowed to flood or
* where it is deliberately flooded by a river or stream for flood management purposes.
Washland usually refers to an area which is deliberately flooded to protect people property elsewhere and that this requires a project to control the storage of water and its inflow and outflow into that storage area. This would usually be via an agreement with the landowner or if the land was owned by the local authority. We would assume that this policy would require land to be clearly earmarked for a deliberately engineered flood storage scheme rather than more general designation of the floodplain.