Registration
To register for this event, please complete the registration form and send to floodstrategy@defra.gsi.gov.uk. Places are limited and cannot be guaranteed.
(The registration form is a Micosoft Word document. Save it to your local system (File > Save As), complete and email. If you cannot process it, then please complete the PDF version in pen and either fax to (020) 7238 6187 or post to Making space for water, Defra, Area 3D Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL.)
Objectives
- Examine recent progress on the uptake of flood resilience since the last workshop in November 2004
- Consider different options on providing better information and professional advice to the public on flood resilience
- Identify remaining barriers to the uptake of flood resilience and how these can be overcome
- Help shape final decisions on Defra’s pilot resilience grant scheme
Agenda
9:30am |
Registration and coffee |
10:00am |
Welcome from Chair; overview of workshop aims; brief update on ABI activities on resilience
Jane Milne, Association of British Insurers |
10:15am |
Keynote address – Making Space for Water and Government progress on flood resilience
Ian Pearson, Minister for Climate Change and Environment, Defra |
10:45am |
Setting the scene: social impacts of flooding and barriers to action
Prof Alan Werrity, Dundee University |
11:15am |
Morning coffee break |
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Stakeholder Panel - awareness-raising, information and advice
Mary Dhonau, National Flood Forum
Jonathan Chapman, Environment Agency
Mike Johnson, Communities and Local Government |
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Lunch |
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Role of insurance in incentivising resilience
Swenja Surminski, Association British Insurers (ABI)
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Stakeholder Panel – financing resilience through grants and insurance
Allan Dickson, Carlisle City Council
Peter Jones, Welsh Assembly Government
Margaret Burrup, Severn Trent Water
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Coffee/Tea Break |
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Breakout groups on remaining barriers to flood resilience
1) Awareness raising and better information – led by Yvonne Riedel, Environment Agency
2) Professional advice – led by Damian Cleghorn, RICS
3) Financial and perception barriers – led by Swenja Surminski, ABI
4) Administrative arrangements for pilot grant scheme – led by David Nelson, Defra |
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Plenary wrap-up |
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Workshop Close |
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