Consultation outcome

River basin planning: draft river basin management plans

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Detail of outcome

The summary report ‘Draft river basin management plans consultation: improvements to plans’ outlines the improvements and changes the Environment Agency has made in updating the river basin management plans (RBMPs) based on responses to the consultation on the draft plans.

Find the River basin management plans: updated 2022. The Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has approved the update to the RBMPs.

Feedback received

Detail of feedback received

We received 270 responses of which 187 were from organisations and 83 were from individuals or no information was given.

For the detail, see the Draft river basin management plans consultation: summary of responses.


Original consultation

Summary

We want your views on the draft plans to help shape the management of the water environment. They will help us update the current river basin management plans.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

The current river basin management plans were published in February 2016. The plans must be reviewed and updated every 6 years.

This consultation on the updated draft river basin management plans is the final (of 3). It gives you an opportunity to give your views on the proposed long term objectives for the water environment and the measures to achieve them.

A consultation on the draft flood risk management plans 2021 to 2027 is running for 3 months from 22 October 2021, to co-ordinate with this 6 month consultation on draft river basin management plans.

Updates to this page

Published 22 October 2021
Last updated 22 December 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated tense to reflect that the 2022 river basin management plans are the current plans approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022.

  2. Added 'Draft river basin management plans consultation: improvements to plans' document to 'Final outcome.'

  3. Published the 'Draft river basin management plans consultation: summary of responses'.

  4. First published.

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