Decision details

Wokingham Borough Council response to South East Water’s consultation on the draft Water Resource Management Plan 2019

Decision Maker: Executive Member for Strategic Highways and Planning- David Lee

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

To ensure that South East Water’s draft Water Resource Management Plan 2019 has minimal negative impacts upon Wokingham Borough and that any positive benefits are maximised.

Decision:

That the Leader of the Council and the Executive Member for Environment agrees that Wokingham Borough Council:

 

1)     Recognizes that South East Water (SEW) has identified the area of Wokingham Borough located in Water Resource Zone 4 (Bracknell) as an area of high water stress and also an area of higher risk uncertainties;

 

2)     Notes SEW’s short term initiatives of water efficiency and leakage reduction, which have been applied to all 8 Water Resource Zones, as well as the longer term initiatives specific to Water Resource Zone 4 (WRZ 4);

 

3)     Requests that South East Water produce an Action Plan that addresses how the requirements of future housing supply in Wokingham Borough will be taken into account and mitigated where required, given the substantial increase in population in Wokingham Borough and future planned growth to be advanced through the Local Plan Update;

 

4)     Continues to welcome further engagement with SEW as work on the dWRMP 2019 continues.

 

Wards Affected: None Specific;

Declarations: None

Dispensations: None

Reference Number: IMD 2018/21

Contact: Heather Read Email: heather.read@wokingham.gov.uk Tel: 0118 974 6453.

Report author: Heather Read

Publication date: 18/05/2018

Date of decision: 18/05/2018

Decided at meeting: 18/05/2018 - Executive - Individual Member Decisions

Effective from: 26/05/2018

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