Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Highways, Parks and Leisure Services.

The report sets out the proposals for the Stockport Council Annual Flood Resilience Plan and describes the various roles and responsibilities of the Council with regard to flooding and flood resilience including its roles as the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA), Highway Authority and landowner both of greenspace and working with Stockport Homes its significant housing assets.

This report is the second annual report providing an update on activities since April 2021 and also provides a response to the Council Motion in July 2022 on highway blocked drains, grids and gullies.

The Cabinet is recommended to:-

·         Note the progress and the proposed future works in the report.

·         Give further consideration to the attached highways drainage plan as approved at the Council meeting in July 2022.

·         Comment on the proposed future approach to the provision of a flood grant if residents’ properties are affected by a future flooding episode including the revised criteria.

Officer contact: Mark Glynn on 0161 474 3700 or email: mark.glynn@stockport.gov.uk

The Cabinet Member for Highways, Parks & Leisure Services (Councillor Grace Baynham) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out proposals for the Stockport Council Annual Flood Resilience Plan and describing the various roles and responsibilities of the Council with regard to flooding and flood resilience including its roles as the Lead Local Flood Authority, Highway Authority and landowner both of greenspace and, working with Stockport Homes, its significant housing assets. 

RESOLVED – That the report be noted and the progress and proposed future works detailed in the report be endorsed.

To consider a report of the Director for Place Management.

The report sets out the proposals for the Stockport Council Annual Flood Resilience Plan and describes the various roles and responsibilities of the Council with regard to flooding and flood resilience including its roles as the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA), Highway Authority and landowner both of greenspace and working with Stockport Homes its significant housing assets.

This report is the second annual report providing an update on activities since April 2021 and also provides a response to the Council Motion in July 2022 on highway blocked drains, grids and gullies.

The Scrutiny Committee is asked to comment on and note the progress and the proposed future works.

Officer contact: Mark Glynn, 0161 474 3700, mark.glynn@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Director of Place Management submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) setting out the proposals for the Stockport Council Annual Flood Resilience Plan and describing the various roles and responsibilities of the Council with regard to flooding and flood resilience including its roles as the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA), Highway Authority and landowner both of greenspace and working with Stockport Homes its significant housing assets.

This report was the second annual report providing an update on activities since April 2021 and also provided a response to the Council Motion in July 2022 on highway blocked drains, grids and gullies.

The Cabinet Members for Climate Change & Environment (Councillor Mark Roberts) and Highways, Parks & Leisure Services (Councillor Grace Baynham) attended the meeting to respond to questions from the Scrutiny Committee.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         It was stated that the report provided insufficient detail on the proposed plan for grid and gully cleansing and maintenance.  In response, it was stated that the gully cleaning programme had been published on the Council’s website.

·         It was stated that residents were now able to report requests for the reactive maintenance of gullies, however these needed to be investigated and acted upon otherwise residents would lose confidence in all of the Council’s online reporting tools.

·         Work had taken place to assess how much material was being removed form gullies to better understand the maintenance requirement and that the gully wagons operated by the Council were more effectively and efficiently used to work through the planned maintenance programme than driving across the borough to attend to individual reports of blocked gullies.

·         It was noted that there was period when only one of the Council’s two gully cleansing vehicles was in operation due to national issues with the recruitment and retention of HGV drivers.  The backlog in the maintenance programme was now being worked through.

·         A discussion took place in relation to the flooding of the A555 and the work that had taken place to try to address this including repairs to drainage outlets and the capacity of attenuation ponds.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.