Land drainage and flood defence responsibilities

This book offers practical, engineering-focused coverage of the legislation relating to water management, flood risk and drainage. Owing to increasingly erratic weather patterns and the effects of climate change, the topics of drainage and flood are becoming ever more important for policymakers and...

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Corporate Author Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : ICE Publishing, 2016.
EditionFifth edition.
Subjects
Drainage.
Drainage laws > England.
Drainage laws > Wales.
Flood control.
Flood control > Law and legislation > England.
Flood control > Law and legislation > Wales.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781523105663
1523105666
9780727760647
0727760645
9780727760630
Physical Description1 online resource (168 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Abbreviations
  • Statutory definitions
  • T339-01.pdf
  • Scope of land drainage
  • General principles
  • Statutory functions
  • Figure 1.1
  • Principal statutes
  • Environment Act 1995
  • Water Resources Act 1991
  • Land Drainage Act 1991
  • The Water Framework Directive 2000
  • The Floods Directive
  • Flood and Water Management Act 2010
  • T339-02.pdf
  • England
  • Introduction
  • Policy
  • Roles and responsibilities of parties
  • Grant aid
  • Advisory function
  • Wales
  • Scotland
  • Figure 2.2
  • Northern Ireland
  • Designated watercourses
  • T339-03.pdf
  • Supervisory duty
  • Figure 3.3
  • Surveying duty
  • Principal powers
  • main rivers and ordinary watercourses
  • Designation of main rivers
  • Powers to ensure maintenance of flow in watercourses
  • Powers to require repairs to watercourses, bridges and other infrastructure
  • Incidental powers
  • Directions to IDBs
  • Power to carry out schemes for small areas
  • Power to make byelaws
  • Flood warning systems
  • Tidal flooding and coastal erosion
  • Financing of land drainage functions
  • General aims and environmental duties
  • T339-04.pdf
  • Functions and constitution
  • Land Drainage Act 1991
  • Water Resources Act 1991
  • Financial arrangements for IDBs
  • Drainage rates and special levies
  • Differential rates
  • Figure 4.4
  • Higher land water contribution (HLWC) from the Environment Agency to the IDB
  • Additional funding
  • Environment Agency precept (from IDB to Environment Agency)
  • T339-05.pdf
  • Outline of powers
  • England and Wales
  • English district councils
  • Principal powers
  • Land Drainage Act 1991
  • Public Health Act 1936
  • Figure 5.5
  • Highways Act 1980
  • Local Government Act 1972
  • Section 106 planning obligations
  • Community Infrastructure Levy
  • English and Welsh county councils and unitary authorities
  • Functions
  • Powers as a drainage body.
  • Drainage powers as a highway authority
  • Planning matters
  • The London authorities
  • Scottish local authorities
  • Northern Ireland local authorities
  • T339-06.pdf
  • Riparian rights and duties
  • Figure 6.6
  • Nuisance
  • Obstruction to flow
  • consent procedure
  • Disputes regarding ditches
  • Disputes between neighbours
  • Powers of entry
  • Problems regarding grant aid
  • Flooding emergencies
  • Artificial watercourses
  • Obstruction and flooding
  • T339-07.pdf
  • Difference between a public sewer and a watercourse
  • Guidelines for differentiation
  • Definition of a public sewer
  • Two basic questions
  • Figure 7.7
  • Figure 7.7
  • What is a sewer?
  • Judicial interpretation
  • Tests to check the status of a public sewer
  • Transfer of Private Sewers Regulations 2011
  • Supplementary transfer scheme
  • T339-08.pdf
  • Figure 8.8
  • T339-09.pdf
  • Figure 9.9
  • T339-10.pdf
  • Introduction
  • England
  • Wales
  • Scotland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Planning procedures
  • Consideration of land drainage matters
  • Conditions for consent
  • Planning obligations
  • Requirement for information and advice
  • Requirements for works, agreements etc.
  • Further practical considerations
  • T339-11.pdf
  • National Planning Policy Framework
  • Risk-based approach
  • Sequential test
  • Exception test
  • Responsibilities for developments in a flood plain
  • Planning policy
  • Northern Ireland
  • T339-12.pdf
  • Ownership problems
  • Figure 12.10
  • Filling in or culverting
  • Powers of diversion
  • Culverts under highways
  • Acceptance of other flows
  • Drainage to existing sewers
  • Runoff onto highways
  • Right of statutory undertakers to discharge into a ditch or watercourse
  • Ditches maintained by the highway authority
  • Highway or land drain
  • T339-13.pdf
  • Summary of problems
  • Control over culverting
  • Practical problems associated with culverting.
  • Legal problems associated with culverting
  • Culverted watercourses
  • Northern Ireland
  • T339-14.pdf
  • Policy framework
  • Environment Agency funding
  • Lead local flood authority expenditure
  • Internal drainage boards
  • Environmental aspects
  • Economic assessment
  • Maintenance
  • Legislation
  • Water Resources Act 1991
  • Land Drainage Act 1991
  • Coast Protection Act 1949
  • Administration
  • Application and formal approval
  • Payments and grant rates
  • Useful publications
  • Contributions
  • Development
  • Betterment and commutation of liabilities
  • Windfalls
  • Bridges
  • The 6-year programme
  • Devolved governments
  • T339-15.pdf
  • Principal statutes
  • Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991
  • Mining codes
  • Pollution of watercourses
  • T339-16.pdf
  • Figure 16.11
  • T339-17.pdf
  • Introduction
  • Environmental obligations
  • Environment, water and land drainage Acts
  • Figure 17.12
  • Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
  • Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations 1994
  • Other designations
  • Environmental impact assessment
  • What is an environmental impact assessment?
  • When is an environmental assessment required?
  • Where planning consent is required
  • Where planning consent is not required
  • Preparing the ES
  • Best practice
  • Publicity and submission procedures
  • T339-18.pdf
  • Websites
  • Books, updated loose-leaf volumes, reports and articles
  • T339-19_ap1.pdf
  • Statutes
  • Statutory Instruments
  • EU Directives and Regulations
  • Government policy guidance
  • Circulars
  • England
  • Wales
  • Scotland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Codes of Practice
  • T339-20_ap2.pdf
  • T339-21_ap3.pdf
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Customer Contact Unit
  • Environment Agency
  • Department for Communities and Local Government
  • Welsh Government
  • Office of the First Minister
  • Minister for Natural Resources.
  • Wales Office, Cardiff
  • Coal Authority
  • Mining Records
  • Scottish Government
  • Office of the First Minister
  • Office of the Permanent Secretary
  • Environment and Forestry Director
  • Legal and Parliamentary Services
  • Northern Ireland Government
  • Office of the First and Deputy First Minister
  • Department for Infrastructure
  • T339-99_index.pdf.

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