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Strategic measures

4. Which draft flood risk management plan (FRMP) will you be responding to?

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Anglian
Dee
Humber
Northumbria
North West
Severn
Solway Tweed
South East
South West
Thames

5. The draft FRMPs set out a number of strategic measures to manage flood risk in identified flood risk areas (FRAs). Do you agree with these measures?

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6. The draft FRMPs set out a number of strategic measures to manage flood risk outside of identified flood risk areas. If applicable to the FRMP you are responding to, do you agree with these measures?

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More managed realignment schemes should be considered.
More wetting of habitats via re-naturalising streams and tributaries of the Medway re-connecting it with its floodplain, especially in upper Medway, Beult and Teise.
NFM schemes for beavers across the catchment to be prioritised and funded. Money seems to be available for hard engineered solutions, such as at Allington Lock, why not for soft engineered NFM schemes?

Connections and climate change

7. To what extent do you think the objectives and measures set out in the draft flood risk management plans (FRMPs) support and contribute to the delivery of the ambitions in the national Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy (FCERM Strategy)?

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Wetland and fenlands should be created, extended and linked up to provide carbon sinks, there is great potential for this in the Yalding area which is a know flooding hot spot. Wetland/fen creation could help mitigate flood risk in this area, capture and store carbon and enhance native biodiversity all at the same time. We at MVCP could help identify, plan and then manage such sites as we have the expertise, local contacts and willingness to take such projects forward if our time can be funded.

8. To what extent do the measures in the draft FRMPs help to deliver multiple benefits for both flood risk management and the wider water environment?

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Other competing demands for land mean it is very hard for any statutory agency to ever do enough.

9. To what extent do you agree that the draft FRMPs consider the likely impacts of flood risk associated with climate change?

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See above answer.

Flood Plan Explorer

10. How easy did you find using flood plan explorer when looking for draft flood risk management plan (FRMP) measures?

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Map search is good.

11. What improvements, if any, would you make to flood plan explorer?

What one thing would you keep and why
Map search
What one thing would you change and why
Flag projects to specific sites if possible

Your experience and supporting delivery

12. Overall, how would you describe your experience of finding the information you were looking for within the draft flood risk management plans (FRMPs) and flood plan explorer?

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I found what I was looking for
I found most of what I was looking for
I did not find much of what I was looking for
I did not find anything I was looking for
Suggest one thing that we could improve
Look at future funding sources through such new financial instruments as Environmental Investment Bonds.

13. In what ways do you think you could support the delivery of the measures as set out in the draft FRMPs?

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As a delivery partner with 33 years of expertise, local contacts and specialist knowledge of relevant habitats both in framing their creation and management in the Medway catchment. We need to be paid for our time & expertise though (as we are not fully funded by our core partners), in the same way as any other consultancy would. Being funded purely on a project by project basis pushes all the risk onto us as non-profit conservation organisations. Otherwise,we as a set of 7 sister partnerships across Kent risk extinction and the concomitant loss of continuity of knowledge, community engagement, healthy living benefits, citizen science, cross over with academia and high skilled jobs in the rural economy, added economic value, and leverage of other sources of funding which we have demonstrably delivered over 30 years.

Strategic Environmental Assessments

14. Do you agree with the conclusions of the environmental assessment(s)?

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15. Are there any further significant environmental effects, either positive or negative, of the draft flood risk management plans (FRMPs) which you think should be considered?

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16. Are there further opportunities to enhance any positive or mitigate any negative environmental effects that should be considered for the final FRMPs?

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