160,000 Scottish Households on Local Authority Waiting Lists

http://scotland.shelter.org.uk/

Flood – TECS to Consider Highland Council’s response to SEPA Flooding Consultation;

Transport, Environmental and Community Services Committee 11 August 2011

REPORT TO COMMITTEE

Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009

Flooding in Scotland:

A Consultation on Potentially Vulnerable Areas and Local Plan Districts

This report invites Members to approve the Council’s response to SEPA’s consultation on Flooding in Scotland: A Consultation on Potentially Vulnerable Areas and Local Plan Districts, which contains additional proposed regulations under the new Flood Act.

http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/ACB43BA3-DC0E-4FC1-99A6-EE1D1B878554/0/Item16TEC5611.pdf

EXTRACT from Report

“3. Are there areas NOT identified as Potentially Vulnerable Areas following this assessment that you believe should be designated as at significant risk of flooding

Yes.

There are a number of areas in Highland that are subject to flooding on a fairly regular basis and it is considered that they should be included as PVAs with high risk status. These are:

• Dingwall and Conon

• Smithton, Culloden and Balloch, significant dormitory suburbs to the east of Inverness

• Kingussie which included the Secondary School

• Thurso…”