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Addressing weather and climate
risks through neighbourhood
planning.
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Addressing weather and climate risks through neighbourhood planning
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Addressing weather and climate risks through neighbourhood planning
Presentation contents
Part 1
— What impact will climate change have on the weather?
— How can climate change and weather affect your community?
Part 2
— What can you do to prepare your community?
Part 3
— How can neighbourhood planning help?
— Case studies
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Learning objectives
— Help you to understand:
— the impact that weather and climate
change could have on a community
— the most likely impacts in your area
— the range of actions communities can
take to respond to risks
— the opportunities to take these action
through neighbourhood plans
Addressing weather and climate risks through neighbourhood planning
Climate change
— The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that
warming of the Earth’s climate resulting from human activity is
indisputable
— Implications for sea level rise…
— Sea level has risen by about 20cm
— Implications for extreme weather…
— Changes in extreme weather since 1950
— Increase in the frequency of heat waves
— Increase in frequency of heavy precipitation events
— Future climate…
— Continued warming of the climate, even if carbon emissions
stop
— Continued sea level rise
— More heat waves, wet areas becoming wetter, dry areas drier
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What impact will climate change have on the weather?
Mark Waugh / Alamy
Jeffrey Blackler / Alamy
Gary Telford / Alamy
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What are the possible impacts?
Climate change and extreme weather can have serious impacts
on a community:
Water
restrictions
Flooding
and coastal
erosion
Pollution
Possible
impacts
Drought
Hot days and
nights
Subsidence
M. Brodie / Alamy
PSL Images / Alamy
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The benefits of taking action to address these impacts?
Peter D Noyce / Alamy
Krys Bailey / Alamy
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What does this mean for where you live?
Current risks?
Future risks?
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Question 1: What impact could weather and climate
change could have on your community?
— Has your community suffer from flooding, water use restrictions, overheating
or subsidence in the past?
— What problems do they cause for the community?
— Which risks have the biggest impact?
— Could these risks get worse in the future? (due to climate change, according
to Local Plan evidence base)
— Could there be new risks in the future? (due to climate change, according to
Local Plan evidence base)
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Avoiding flood risk
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Flood resistance, resilience and recovery actions
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Actions to address limited water availability
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Actions to address limited water availability
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Actions to address heat waves
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Actions to address heat waves
Libby Welch / Alamy
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Actions to address risk of subsidence
— Vegetation management
— Surface erosion control structures
— Sustainable Urban Drainage
— Foundation design
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Question 2: What actions would you like to take in your
community to respond to weather and climate risks?
— What were the main risks (flooding, water use restrictions, overheating or subsidence)
for your area following question 1?
— What actions are available to deal with these risks?
— Which actions do you think could work in your community / area? Consider:
— Are there similar activities already underway in your area? E.g. Water efficiency
schemes.
— Which organisations can provide expertise or funding to deliver these actions?
E.g. lead local flood authority, Environment Agency, water company, housing
associations, health authority.
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Neighbourhood Planning
The UK Government’s Localism Act
established ‘Neighbourhood Development
Plans’.
—Parish / Town Council or a Neighbourhood
Forum decide what is in their neighbourhood
plan.
—It can identify location, size, type and
design of new development.
—It is the basis for determining planning
applications.
—Lasts for 10 years.
—Must ‘conform’ with the Local Plan.
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Conforming with the Local Plan
Local planning policy will already include
policies and planning guidance covering
relevant issues such as:
─ Flood risk
─ Water efficiency
─ Building design
─ Green space
For example - refer to relevant Local Plan
polices and SPD for your area.
Your neighbourhood plan can more
precisely define what measures should be
taken in your area and help to deliver them.
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Action through Neighbourhood Plans
Your neighbourhood plan could include:
—Water efficiency and resilience to flood risk and
overheating measures for new and existing
buildings.
—Standards for including green space such as
street trees, footpaths and green spaces.
—Design measures to manage surface water, called
‘Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems’.
—Education schemes to help communities
understand how changing their behaviour can also
help.
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Case studies
Hackbridge Neighbourhood Plan includes a
range of measures to promote water
efficiency as part of creating a wider
sustainable hub.
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Case studies: Community-led projects
Wyke Beck Way - a community led project to
develop green infrastructure in the form of
parks and footpaths. The principles of this
scheme have been embedded in local
planning policy.
Riverlution, Sheffield - a local business and
community led scheme to manage river
corridor vegetation and create pocket parks to
reduce flood risk. The scheme has wider
ecology and amenity benefits.
Plug in Midlands – a partnership scheme
between water company, housing associations
and local community to install water
efficiency measures in homes.
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Deciding what to do
Depends on:
— Which risks are greatest?
— What opportunities there are in your
area/plan?
— The scope set by the adopted Local Plan
— Low cost options available
— Win-win options available
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Question 3: What actions would you like to include in
your neighbourhood plan?
— From question 2: The actions you would like to take to address local risks (flooding,
water use restrictions, overheating or subsidence)?
— Are there any local plan or supplementary planning document policies that support
the actions you would like to take?
— What further actions are could be included in your neighbourhood plan to address
local risks?
— Following on from the list of organisations identify in question 2, which organisations
could provide support to define further actions that could be included in your
neighbourhood plan?
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Key messages to take away
— Your neighbourhood plan gives you the chance to promote
positive action in your area
— But, must be in line with the Local Plan.
— Work with a range of partners for help and funding
— Include and improve on existing community projects
— Lots of possibilities, focus on what the community want to
achieve, for example:
— Better footpaths, green space and street trees
— Water efficiency fittings in homes
— Measures to protect homes and businesses from
flooding