ENVIRONMENT SELECT COMMITTEE
FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP
Members: Cllr Hamish Adourian, Chair, Cllr Aarien Areti, Cllr Joanna Gardner,
Cllr Eva Jedut, Cllr Stuart Graham.
Thursday 29 September, 6.30pm-8.30pm
Council Chamber, Kensington Town Hall.
AGENDA
1. Introduction and welcome
Introduction to the evidence session on flooding risk impacts on residents and businesses.
2. Domestic Flood Insurance (30 mins)
To discuss:
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How the national re-insurance scheme works for households
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Eligibility
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Local issues and flooding re-insurance
Members’ questions. Contributions from residents.
3. Businesses and Flood Risks (30 mins)
To discuss:
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How business activity is affected
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Support for businesses at risk
Members’ questions
Contributions from businesses and residents.4. Residents, Impacts and Flood Risks (1 hour)
To discuss
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Social impacts on residents in flood risk areas
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Residents’ knowledge of flood risks
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Residents’ involvement in mitigating flood risk
Members’ questions Contributions from residents
ReplyDeleteDear Cllr Adourian
Please forward this email to your colleagues and if possible, add it to the minutes.
I intended to be at this meeting so regret having missed it. There’s nothing recent in my inbox. I saw it on The Hornet blog yesterday. Perhaps there was a notification several weeks ago.
Please add these comments to your deliberations. I refer to Portobello Rd: an area I’ve known for 60+ years.
Agenda:
2. FloodRe: Since 12.7.21 my insurance premium for a small (50sqm) garden flat has risen by 50%. FloodRe now covers this.
3. Business: How business was affected: In Portobello, on one road junction 40 shop premises were surface and sewer flooded. Of these, 30 had flooded basements. Within 150m, approx. 90 more basements were flooded on 3 additional junctions.
Business Flood Risk: The Kurt Geiger shoe shop made its young female staff clean out its shop basement themselves. Kurt Geiger then closed.
Support for Businesses at Risk. None as far as I can see - and I’m the shopkeepers’ rep to the Market.
4. Social Impacts on Residents: Devastating; but I doubt anyone knows.
Residents' Knowledge of Flood Risks: Residents know that when it happens again, they’ll be ignored again.
Resident Involvement in Mitigating Flood Risk: RBKC’s Flood Risk Management Working Group meetings are not publicised; so there is no involvement.
The Agenda omits: “Support for Residents at Risk.”
Sincerely
A. Resident (Mrs)