As part of its role under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (FRM Act), East Dunbartonshire Council (EDC) is developing Surface Water Management Plans (SWMPs) for Bearsden, Milngavie and Bishopbriggs which are all located within identified Potentially Vulnerable Areas (PVA’s) of flood risk. The Council has identified Bearsden, Milngavie and Bishopbriggs as its three priority areas to be completed within the first cycle of the FRM Act (2016-2022).
The three SWMPs will assess the flood risks and identify long term, sustainable and achievable mitigation measures which can be implemented to manage the flood risk (including climate change) and reduce the flooding impacts in each town, and on their respective environments and economies - whilst at the same time considering opportunities for associated benefits to the local communities such as enhanced water quality, landscape, and amenity value as well as improved biodiversity.
To find out more about the project or share your flooding experiences with representatives from EDC and the project consultants (AECOM), an initial round of “drop-in” Public Consultation events are being held which are detailed in the following table.
Our consultation will be running from Monday 11 June 2018.
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SWMP location |
Public Consultation Event Venue |
Date |
Time |
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RE-ARRANGED DETAILS Milngavie |
Milngavie Town Hall |
TUESDAY 17 JULY 2018 |
3pm to 8pm |
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Bishopbriggs |
War Memorial Hall |
Wednesday 27 June 2018 |
3pm to 8pm |
|
Bearsden Hall |
Bearsden Hall |
Thursday 28 June 2018 |
3pm to 8pm |
Please drop-in and talk to us. Your inputs will help inform the identification of potential solutions to improve the long-term resilience of East Dunbartonshire to flood risk.
Further Public Consultation events will be held and these will be advertised over the coming months.
The purpose of the events was to gather information about flooding in the Bishopbriggs, Milngavie and Bearden areas and introduce the concept of Surface Water Management Plans which are being carried out in the area. The three SWMPs will assess the flood risks and identify long term, sustainable and achievable mitigation measures which can be implemented to manage the flood risk (including climate change) and reduce the flooding impacts in each priority area, and on their respective environments and economies - whilst at the same time considering opportunities for associated benefits to the local communities such as enhanced water quality, landscape, and amenity value as well as improved biodiversity.
Approximately 50 residents attended the Bishopbriggs event (27 June 2018) whilst 40 residents attended the Bearsden event (26 June 2018). EDC, Scottish Water and AECOM staff (EDC’s consultant) were on hand to introduce work the projects and the gather information. The large turnout at both events was largely driven by a recent extreme flood event June 2019 where significant surface water flooding was reported. Residents were concerned about extreme flooding happening again and wanted to understand what was proposed for the area. Other residents were interested in the timescales for capital works by the council proposed for Bearsden. The event was really useful to gather experiences of flooding from local people to understand where potential measures need to be focused. Comment cards and conversations with attendees were used to record sources and routes of flooding. The Milngavie event (17th July) was less heavily attended with approximately ten attendees. This was likely as the area had not been affected by the recent storm event. As part of the consultation exercise 21 reports of recent flooding in Bishopbriggs and 23 reports in Bearsden were gathered. This has been digitised into Geographic Information Systems outputs to map flood reports and sources. These results will be used during baseline modelling for the studies to sense check outputs and target interventions. In some cases photos and anecdotal sketches were provided.