Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 22 September 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the flood risk to houses in Solihull constituency.
The Solihull area has 8 live schemes with a total value of £2,400,000 in the current Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management six-year programme. These schemes are currently forecast to reduce flood risk for 227 properties in Solihull by 2027. These are predominantly Property Flood Resilience schemes being led by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) and supported by the Environment Agency (EA) as a response to flooding from surface water and Ordinary Watercourses - 89 of these properties already have their measures in place and the remaining 138 are on target for delivery by the end of the programme (March 2027).
The EA has two schemes at Initial Assessment stage investigating the wider River Cole Catchment area. These involve a Nature Based Solutions study on the River Cole headwaters, around Nethercote and Hollywood, investigating Natural Flood Management options possible for the area; and investigations into the causes of, and potential solutions to, flooding on the Hatchford and Westerley brooks (near Birmingham international Airport). Both of these studies are currently developing Hydraulic modelling to better inform the projects and are being run in partnership with Solihull MBC.
In addition, the EA aims to develop the hydraulic model update for the River Blythe as part of the future programme to better understand the flooding mechanisms on this watercourse. This work is forecast to commence in 2023-24.
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