Flooding risk to London needs reappraisal
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Flooding risk to London needs reappraisal

The biggest legacy of GLC was the #ThamesBarrier saving Central London from flooding. The risk of flooding clearly needs reappraisal from coverage in the MetroUK newspaper this week, at the very beginning of the new year. Previously as chair of the Environment Committee at The London Assembly we covered the risk of flooding to London and work into this needs to be undertaken again.

https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/assembly/murad-qureshi-past-staff/flooding-issues-revealed

So l look forward to seeing The London Assembly and the Environment Agency getting us updated on the latest flooding risks to our capital city even though the Mayor does not have much powers over this critical matter for Londoners, in light of increasing global warming.


Pete Daw

Head of Climate Change

1 年

Worth checking the TE2100 review that was concluded last summer, which has looked at coastal flooding risk and brought forward the date for a new barrier. The Review group also wrote to the SoS highlighting a number of things government must act on in the next few years to make it happen.

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