Speeches by Buckley.

“Yourself, Dr Sayers, anything further about new builds and the grey infrastructure whether it is suitable?”

“Excellent. We will come on to both SuDS and green in just a second. We will come back to yourself, Professor Hall, and you have somewhat answered it with your schedule 3 plea, but is there anything else you would like to say about whether grey flooding resilience is fully integrated into the planning system in terms of…”

“Excellent. I am sorry to rush but we are running out of time. Could I ask you, Professor McDonagh, do you feel that grey flooding infrastructure is used effectively and maintained specifically coastal areas?”

“Sorry to rush you; we are just running out of time. Do you mean a shared strategic plan or that they align their separate ones?”

“Do we have a unanimous panel on recommending schedule 3? Thank you.”

“What do you think we should do? How could we enforce these private owners?”

“Thank you, it is very helpful. The same to yourself, Professor Hall.”

“Excellent. That is a perfect segue into the question I am about to ask you, which is looking at the grey infrastructure and those grey assets. You talked about my constituency in Shrewsbury. We are a historic river town. We have Victorian infrastructure that was not built for the volume of houses that we have. We are r…”

“Would you say that should be a key recommendation of this committee?”

“That is really helpful for coastal and then for inland river—like my constituency of Shrewsbury that you referred to—what about combining the fluvial and the pluvial? Combining that rainwater with what is happening already in the river. Is there a use in joining that together?”

“Thank you. That is very helpful. Professor Naylor, did you have a comment?”

“I want to start by thanking Dr Sayers for your comments earlier about that context—the multiple factors around what causes flooding. You talked about if the groundwater is already quite high because of previous rainfall then that obviously plays into your risk of flood. We heard from the previous panel about the fragme…”

“I was really interested to hear you talk about that complex arrangement or that array of different partners, because that is exactly how residents feel—that it is highly complicated. They do not know who does what and they do not know who to turn to. You also talk about the need for more investment and better value for…”

“We often represent rural areas where we have a small number of houses that are flooded frequently rather than a considerable number flooded once every 10 years. How do you feel about proposing changes so that instead of grants being allocated on the basis of scale—so the number of properties—another factor in there oug…”

“Do we have a unanimous panel on recommending schedule 3? Thank you.”

“Sorry to rush you; we are just running out of time. Do you mean a shared strategic plan or that they align their separate ones?”

“Excellent. We will come on to both SuDS and green in just a second. We will come back to yourself, Professor Hall, and you have somewhat answered it with your schedule 3 plea, but is there anything else you would like to say about whether grey flooding resilience is fully integrated into the planning system in terms of…”

“Excellent. I am sorry to rush but we are running out of time. Could I ask you, Professor McDonagh, do you feel that grey flooding infrastructure is used effectively and maintained specifically coastal areas?”

“Yourself, Dr Sayers, anything further about new builds and the grey infrastructure whether it is suitable?”

“Excellent. We are catching up with ourselves.”