Issue - meetings

To consider a report updating Committee on activity in relation to the Council’s role as Lead Local Flood Authority for 2022-23. 

The Committee considered the report which provided an update on activity in relation to the Council’s role as Lead Local Flood Authority during 2022-23.

It was requested that consideration was given to funding for flood risk management and suggested that an accrual of monies for flood risk be identified outside of the highways and infrastructure budget which Members felt was already under significant pressure. It was confirmed that in response to flooding incidents there was a redistribution of funding across the service. The service received an income from fees for use of the highway and that any surplus would be put aside to form a small reserve for flooding to provide some flexibility to manage pressures and reduce the impact this had on pothole repair funding.

Cllr Sewart referred to serious flooding incidents in Poynton in 2016 and 2019 and thanked the team for the excellent work that they did following both incidents.

RESOLVED (unanimously):

The Highways and Transport Committee

1.    Note the update on activity in relation to the Council’s role as Lead Local Flood Authority undertaken in 2022/23.

2.    Agree that the Committee will monitor the activity of the Council in discharging its duties as Lead Local Flood Authority in 2023/24 and receive an annual report.