Decision details
Acceptance of funding from the Environment Agency and variation to Public Realm Annual Plan 2022/23
Decision Maker: Service Director – Environment , Highways, & Waste
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The Ayles Brook is designated as an Ordinary
Watercourse which therefore falls under the regulatory supervision
of Herefordshire Council. Following flooding in February 2020, this
location is a settlement within the county at which the council has
been trying to mitigate flood risk.
It is proposed that grant monies would be used to complete
hydraulic modelling to improve the existing surface water mapping
on the route of the Ayles Brook.
The surface water modelling work may facilitate a future project to
extend the current hydraulic modelling of the Widemarsh Brook to
include the Ayles Brook. In turn the model may be used to
demonstrate the impact of installing a flood defence structure,
such as bunding on the Racecourse to attenuate flow during storms.
This future project would benefit properties in the vicinity of the
racecourse and also downstream. Such a scheme would seek to
mitigate fluvial flood risk to 18 properties and a school from the
Ayles Brook.
Contact: Mark Averill, Service Director Environment and Highways Email: mark.averill@herefordshire.gov.uk Tel: 01432 260944.
Publication date: 12/01/2023
Date of decision: 01/12/2022
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