National Flood Resilience Strategy

Footnotes

1 Flood Risk Management Plans | SEPA

2 The Flood Risk Management Plans published by SEPA in 2022 report that the expected cost of flooding impacts in Scotland is now around £260 million per year.

3 Publication 2019 - The Place Principle - Our contribution to place-based working.pdf

4The Flood Risk Management Planning process is a requirement of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009. The Act allocates clear roles and responsibilities for managing flood risk in Scotland. Scottish Government works in partnership with SEPA, local authorities, Scottish Water and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority and Cairngorms National Park Authority. It brings responsible authorities together to assess risk and to prioritise objectives and actions for places with the greatest flood exposure. These objectives and actions are summarised in the Flood Risk Management Plans that are published every six years by SEPA.

5 Draft Scottish National Adaptation Plan (2024-2029) (www.gov.scot)

6 National Planning Framework 4 (www.gov.scot)

7 Scotland’s National Marine Plan: A Single Framework for Managing Our Seas (www.gov.scot)

8 Flood Warning Development Framework 2022-28 (sepa.org.uk)

9 Towards Scotland's first Flood Resilience Strategy (flippingbook.com)

10 Flood Resilience Strategy: consultation - Scottish Government consultations - Citizen Space

11 socio-spatial vulnerability combined with the probability of being flooded.

12 Advice for emergencies in Scotland (ready.scot)

13 The Place Principle requests that:

All those responsible for providing services and looking after assets in a place need to work and plan together, and with local communities, to improve the lives of people, support inclusive and sustainable economic growth and create more successful places.

14 Making space for water in this context is about recognising where water will naturally go and working with this to increase our flood resilience. This includes making space on low-lying coastlines, river corridors, floodplains and urban flowpaths and ensuring that activities in these areas do not expose us to flood impacts nor impede the flow of water.

15 Property flood resilience - Scottish baseline study | ClimateXChange

16 The cycle one flood protection schemes are those included in the 2015-2021 Flood Risk Management Plans. Cycle two runs from 2022-2028.