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Resilient Costal Communities
Suffolk Coast Forum Annual Conference th October, Snape Maltings
Paul Hayden
Chair Anglia (Eastern) Regional Flood & Coastal Committee

2. Protecting Communities
Outline the realities of coastal risk for communities (from an RFCC Chair / Emergency Manger’s perspective)
Discuss the structures, plans and resources currently in place to mitigate that risk
Take a look forward to see what we can do locally to make Suffolk communities safer

3. Community Impacts / Realities

6. Storm surge provided basis for Environment Agency warnings & evacuation

7. Not Just Flooding! 7

24. Critical Infrastructure - Water Mythe WTW

25. Mythe WTW

26. Alternative supplies - bowsers

27. Alternative supplies - bottles
15 local distribution centres
150,000 litres given out 23 July
3 million litres a day available by end 24 July
Bottled water stocks maintained to meet demand

28. Critical Infrastructure – Power Walham

30. Floods - the “Four Realities”
Floods by their very nature are multi-agency events.
Floods by their very nature are multi-jurisdictional events.
Floods by their very nature are Haz-Mat and public health events.
Floods by their very nature are long term events that can exhaust responding agency staff and communities emotionally, mentally, and physically.

31. Structures, plans and resources currently in place to mitigate risk

32. The “Post Pitt” Reveloution

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Strategic Structures
Defra – Lead Government Department
EA – Executive Agency with responsibility for FCERM at a strategic level
LLFA – Focus for surface water, local plans and activities
RFCC – Devolved decision making bodies for EA’s FCERM plans and spending, monitor & encourage joined up working locally

34. Evidence Based Investment & Response
Flood Forecasting Centre
Improved Flood warnings and EA Flood Response (emergency rescue still not funded!)
Continued investment in environmental science to better understand risk

35. NERC: Who we are
Leading public funder of environmental science in the UK investing £330m pa.
3,000 scientists and 1,000 PhD students
55 universities and 20 research institutes
UK national capability: 4 ships, 7 aircraft, 6 polar stations, 6 data centres, 32 community facilities

36. Meeting society’s needs
Benefiting from natural resources
Resilience to environmental hazards
Managing environmental change
Discovery science

37. Success / Issues to date
Improved alignment of investment across agencies
Local input / priorities influence decisions
Genuine desire for partnerships and to listen to local people
Internal processes and treasury rules sometimes make it difficult to do the right thing!
Staff reductions and loss of experience / capacity make delivery harder
Engagement is slow, you can never do enough

38. Opportunities Going Forward

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Local Opportunities
1st RFCC rolling 10 year Strategic Plan by April 2017 RFCC Stakeholder meeting via Suffolk Costal Forum
Tremendous support within RFCC for local groups and initiatives – we just need help finding ways of getting small amounts of money to where it will be of most use and deliver best value
We know the funding process is “clunky” right now, but stick with us!

41. Conclusions
FCERM recognised as a significant strategic issue with multiple, complex challenges – but there is significant investment available for FCERM and the underpinning Science.
The FCERM landscape and funding is complicated – we need to get on and deal with it.
Decision making on local choices is devolved to RFCC, we want to involve more people in that process and hope you will contribute