Attend the next meeting of the Local Government Flood Forum on Friday, 20 March in London.

On the agenda will be:

• Keynote Speech: Barry Gardiner MP, Shadow Minister for DEFRA, sets out Labour's policies on flooding ahead of the General Election.

• Paul Cobbing, Chief Executive of the National Flood Forum, will be discussing their Pathfinder Project.
• Association of British Insurers, present an update on the progress of Flood Re.
• Environment Agency discuss the re-organisation of the Agency and what this means for local government
• Shoothill & Calderdale Council present online mapping website to help communities monitor potential flooding.
• Enrico Isnenghi, Associate Director, WSP, will be looking at road network resilience and flooding - mulitple centrality assessment.

• Bracknell Forest Council on the latest on SuDs.
• Environment Agency who will also providing a general update to the Group.

Programme*

11:15 Registration and refreshments

11:30 Welcome and introduction to the LGFF

Dr Andy Johnston, Chief Operating Officer, LGiU

Alastair Atkinson, Technical Director, WSP Group

11:45 Labour’s policy on flooding

Barry Gardiner MP, Shadow Secretary of State for DEFRA (confirmed)

12:30 Online Mapping Technology for local authorities and local communities –

Calderdale Council

Tim Welch, Shoothill & Jae Campbell, Calderdale Council

13:00 Lunch

13:45 Road network resilience and flooding – Multiple Centrality Assessment

Enrico Isnenghi, Associate Director, WSP Group

14:15 Update on ‘Flood Re’

Aidan Kerr, Operations Director, Association of British Insurers

14:45 Pathfinder Project: Community involvement in flood protection

Paul Cobbing, Chief Executive, National Flood Forum

15:15 Update from the Environment Agency

Emma Thomson – Environment Agency

Environment Agency Re-organisation

Neil Davies, Deputy Director of Strategy

15:45 Update on SuDS

Kevin Tidy, Senior Engineer (SuDS and Highway Adoption),

Bracknell Forest Council

16:15 Close

* This programme is correct at time of publication, but programme content may be altered without notice to reflect speaker changes which are beyond our control.

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