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  • Flood Management (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    What you actually said to Jenny (Jones) was that the flood defences will have to be improved because of environmental factors: global warming, sinking land, and the fact that the risk will have increased by 2030. Of course, we do not just flick a switch and the risk doubles in 2030; the risk is increasing all the time incrementally towards that. But you did not say anything, with respect, about the risk management element, which has to take into account the value of what you are protecting as well as the risk of something happening. I am not convinced that...
  • Flood Management (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Nor, I assume, do you put your police stations and fire stations and hospitals and emergency services that will need to respond to a flood within the flood zone?
  • Flood Management (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Is there a plan which is going to ensure all these things are placed back from the area that is potentially in danger? How do you actually, when you are doing that, speak to local residents and businesses who are in the high risk area and assure them that, just because you have not got public facilities there, that does not meant it is a no-go area?
  • Leadership in the Thames Gateway (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
  • Leadership in the Thames Gateway (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Lynne Featherstone
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Quickly moving on to some of the other issues, do you think there should be more opportunities for engagement with local communities and the boroughs than there has been to date? How can you develop those opportunities for participation as the development proceeds? When you have got all these people we have been talking about, how do the normal or base levels that need to be consulted get their two pennies worth in on this at a critical stage?
  • Infrastructure in the Thames Gateway (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004