{"id":22638,"date":"2019-05-10T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22638"},"modified":"2019-05-10T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:12:21","slug":"uk-flood-planners-must-prepare-for-worst-says-the-environment-agency-via-the-bbc-ihbcs-2019-school-can-help-professionals-prepare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22638","title":{"rendered":"UK flood planners ‘must prepare for worst\u2019, says the Environment Agency, via the BBC: IHBC\u2019s 2019 School can help professionals prepare!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"river\"<\/a>England\u2019s flood planners must prepare for the worst on climate change, the Environment Agency has warned in a report by the BBC in an only too timely strategic plan that is especially relevant to the IHBC\u2019s 2019 School in Nottingham<\/a>, on 4-6 July.<\/h3>\n
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The recently launched Environment Agency \u2018Draft flood strategy\u2019 aims to see government policy ensuring all publicly-funded infrastructure is resilient to flooding and coastal change by 2050.<\/p>\n

Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd, said: \u2018We can\u2019t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.\u2019\u00a0 She called for more to be done to encourage property owners to rebuild homes after flooding in better locations, and with improvements such as raised electrics, hard flooring and flood doors, rather than just \u2018recreating what was there before\u2019.\u00a0 However, she warned that in some places \u2018the scale of the threat may be so significant that recovery will not always be the best long term solution\u2019 and communities would need help to \u2018move out of harm’s way\u2019.<\/p>\n

The numerous possible implications for historic buildings and areas jump out of just this single paragraph; moving\u00a0whole communities; flood doors; ‘recovery not being the best long term solution’; and ‘not recreating what was there before’.\u00a0 Starting to think about what might happen to the heritage of your area if flooding becomes a regular issue or mitigation might be equally damaging.<\/p>\n

The IHBC Day School begins to unpick these issues with two speakers in the \u2018flooding\u2019 section of the 2019 Day School \u2018Heritage, Risk & Resilience: confronting conservation calamities\u2019 in Nottingham on Friday 5 July will be James Innerdale, on sensitive intervention for flood resilience, & Helen Brownlie, on dealing with the after effects of flood particularly in Cockermouth.<\/p>\n

To book the 2019 School: Visit the School\u2019s website nottingham2019.ihbc.org.uk<\/a> or book direct:<\/p>\n

Full School<\/a>: Thursday 4 \u2013 Saturday 6 July 2019
\nDay School<\/a>: Friday 5 July 2019<\/p>\n

For background see the\u00a0BBC News<\/a>,\u00a0Gov.UK<\/a>\u00a0and the Environment Agency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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