Flood Control
Commons · Question 9554 · Tabled 16 Oct 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Patrick Spencer
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to support for landowners to maintain stretches of waterways on their land to help mitigate future flooding risk.
Answer
Answered by Emma Hardy, 21 Oct 2024
All farmers and land managers are encouraged to manage the land in a way that supports and enhances the environment while reducing impacts on others, such as climate risks. Where there is a watercourse, riparian landowners are required under common law to...