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Third parliamentary inquiry into flood mitigation and resilience seeks feedback

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment is seeking the industry's recommendations for action to tackle the on-going flood resilience problems across the UK as part of its third inquiry in to the challenges faced by the nation.

Floods

As we approach the new UK flood season, the inquiry will look at the problems caused to the UK by flooding and examine the potential for greater mitigation of these problems and significantly improving flood resilience including the potential for adaptation to changing environmental pressures.

However, the APPGEBE said it specifically looking for ideas around action rather than simply additional comments identifying the problems. 

"The Commission is particularly looking for evidence of practical strategies that will, for example, improve flood protection, adaptation and mitigation, enable a better assessment of flood risk and improvement in insurance and valuation issues,"

"There is no prescribed format for written submissions but they should be of reasonable length and possess a clear conclusion and recommendations for action and must be accompanied by all relevant appendices," explains the Committee's call for evidence. "The Committee is not looking for submissions to merely outline the scope of the problem although identifying challenges and barriers that need to be overcome in order to achieve progress may be an important aspect of submissions. 

Written submissions are requested to be received no later than Friday, 3rd October, 2014. 

Any firm, organisations or individual with an interest should submit evidence on how the country might best be able to deal with the problem posed by flooding and minimise the impact on homes, businesses, lives and the loss to the UK economy as a whole.  

"The Commission is particularly looking for evidence of practical strategies that will, for example, improve flood protection, adaptation and mitigation, enable a better assessment of flood risk and improvement in insurance and valuation issues," it said. "The Commission is also looking for evidence that will exemplify effective coordination that will bring together organisations that have a part to play in any aspect of improving our prevention of, or resilience to, flooding."

The APPG for EBE Commission of Inquiry comprises members of both Houses of Parliament, senior members of the construction professions and key influencers and decision makers in other aspects of society. 

Written submissions should be send electronically to the APPGEBE Secretary, Graham Watts at gwatts@cic.org.uk  

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