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26Chapter 4:Flooding and Spatial Planning• Flood risk management should be integrated into spatial planning policiesat all levels to enhance certainty and clarity in the overall planning process.Planning Guidelines• Screening for flood risk and any further stage of flood risk assessmentrequired are the key steps for Regional Planning Guidelines and developmentplans and in some cases, local area plans. This should be undertaken asearly as possible.• The existing Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) process for plansshould be harnessed as a mechanism with which the process of screeningfor flood risk and any further flood risk assessment, should be aligned.• Future Regional Planning Guidelines should address flood risk by carryingout screening and scoping flood risk assessments at a strategic level.• Development Plans should address flood risk by having screening, scopingand appropriate flood risk assessments in place by the time decisions aremade about draft development plans and any subsequent amendments.• The application of the sequential approach and, in some exceptional cases,the Justification Test should be used by planning authorities in successfullyincorporating flood risk into the decision-making process on developmentplans.Flooding and the National Spatial Strategy4.1 National planning policy supports the consideration of flood risk managementas an important part of achieving proper planning and sustainable development.The National Spatial Strategy (NSS) sets out a framework within which a morebalanced and sustainable pattern of development can be achieved. Spatialplanning at regional and local levels is an essential part of the overallimplementation mechanisms for the NSS and planning at these levels shouldaddress the suitability of locations for development including considerationsrelating to flood risk.Flooding and Regional Planning Guidelines4.2 Regional Planning Guidelines (RPGs) are essential in translating the overallnational approach of the NSS to the regional authority level, providing aframework for greater co-ordination of local authorities and their developmentplans. RPGs were adopted in 2004 and are statutorily reviewed every 6 years.Therefore, the next round of RPGs will need to take account of these guidelinesin addressing the issue of flood risk and should:
• Incorporate a strategic level flood risk assessment, ideally integratedinto the existing SEA process that will now apply to the preparation offuture Regional Planning Guidelines;27• Identify strategic flood risk and spatial planning issues for the areacovered by the RPGs;• Set out a policy framework for development plans and local area plansof planning authorities to address the flood risk issues arising at aregional level; and• Outline, with due consideration of the national flood risk assessmentand management planning programme, any further requirements forflood risk assessments and/or studies.4.3 Regional authorities should work closely with other agencies, such as theOPW, DAFF, DEHLG, local authorities and other agencies, in addressing thespatial planning implications of flooding at the regional level.Regional level flood risk assessment and SEA4.4 Flood risk assessment within the RPG process should be strategic in nature(i.e. bearing in mind that more detailed assessments will be carried out whendevelopment plans and LAPs are being prepared) and ideally should be anintegral part of the SEA process. It will generally comprise the screening andscoping stages outlined in paragraph 2.21 and Appendix A. The Departmentof the Environment, Heritage and Local Government will, in the context ofthe next round of RPGs, give advice to regional authorities in undertakingstrategic level flood risk assessment.4.5 Screening and scoping of the SEA will normally include flooding as one ofthe many environmental issues for the region, drawing upon existing publishedsources of information such as those identified in Appendix A. At a regionallevel, the screening exercise should provide sufficient information to scopeany further strategic flood risk assessment, if required, and any necessaryspatial policies on flood risk. Information on how these differing levels offlood risk assessments are undertaken and relevant sources of informationare contained in Appendix A.Principles for the region4.6 Having prepared a screening assessment and, if necessary, a strategic floodrisk assessment, RPGs should then identify broad development principlesand objectives for the region to deal with any flood issues arising from theassessment/s. Planning authorities will then have to ensure that theirdevelopment plans are consistent with RPG principles and objectives.Co-ordination of development plans4.7 Given the nature of flood risk, it is likely that more than one planning authoritywill be affected by, for example, coastal or river flooding affecting an extensivePlanning Guidelines
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