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Lower Aire Flood Risk Management Strategy Environmental Scoping Consultation Document

We are seeking your views on the Lower Aire Flood Risk Management Strategy Environmental Scoping Consultation Document.

Starting date: 29 January 2010
Closing date: 12 March 2010

Background information

The Lower Aire Flood Risk Management Strategy (LAFRMS) will set a framework for the strategic management of flood risk over the next 100 years in the Lower Aire catchment. This starts at Lemonroyd Weir, downstream of Leeds, and ends at the confluence with the River Ouse, near Airmyn. It will identify measures to manage flood risk to people, property, and the environment, in a sustainable manner.

We are working with organisations, businesses and communities to develop a range of solutions to help deal with flooding issues in this area of Yorkshire.

As part of the development of the LAFRMS, we will be undertaking a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). This enables us to identify environmental problems and opportunities relevant to the strategy study area are considered as we develop the options for managing flood risk.

The environmental scoping consultation document, available below, presents the longer list of options, environmental baseline information on the study area, and explains how we intend to carry out the environmental assessment of these options.

Your chance to comment

Throughout the document there are targeted questions, which are all included on the response form, also available below. There is also an opportunity for any other comments you feel are relevant.

We will be talking to the local community before the preferred options for the strategy are decided.

Consultation documents

You can view the consultation documents here:

Response form

Please fill out our response form and return it to us by Friday 12 March 2010.

Either print off the response form and post it back to us at:

Lower Aire Strategy Scoping Consultation
Environment Agency
Phoenix House
Global Avenue
Millshaw
Leeds
LS11 8PG

or save the Word version on your computer and email it to us:

Further information

For further details please contact:

What happens next?

We will be talking to the local community in advance of the preferred options being determined for the strategy.

When the consultation closes on 12 March 2010, any comments will be taken into consideration by the SEA process which influences the development of the strategy.