Notice

Announcement of intention not to prepare an environmental statement: Wareham, Dorset, Redcliffe Banks resilience project

Published 14 March 2018

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The notice

Announcement of intention not to prepare an environmental statement: Regulation 5 of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 2017 SI 2017/585.

The work

The Environment Agency gives notice that it proposes to carry out work to 2 sections of Redcliffe Bank on the right bank of the River Frome downstream from Wareham, Dorset: approximately 77m of bank near Redcliffe Yacht Club and 110m of bank near Redcliffe boat yard (NGR SY 93503 87281). The objective is to restore the Redcliffe Bank to its original design level and cross section. This is in line with the approved Poole and Wareham Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy 2013.

The proposed works will involve:

  • mobilisation of a site compound
  • removing vegetation from the crest and landward face of the embankment
  • using soil fill from landward side of the embankment to raise the bank to the required level
  • desilting the parallel Delph ditch which has become blocked and overgrown
  • placing material from desilting to bring the embankment to its final level
  • demobilising the site compound

Intention not to prepare an environmental statement

The Environment Agency in discussion with Natural England considers that the improvement works are not likely to have significant effects on the environment and does not intend to prepare an environmental statement in respect of them. With reference to Schedule 2 of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (as amended), and considering the characteristics of the improvement works, the location of the improvement works and the type and characteristics of the potential impact, it is considered that with mitigation in place the proposed works will not have a significant effect on the environment.

The proposed improvement works will help to maintain navigational assets on the River Frome and will provide an improved standard of flood protection, thereby reducing the risk of flooding to farm land and the internationally and nationally designated freshwater habitat situated behind Redcliff Bank.

An environmental report has been produced which summarises the works and an assessment of their likely environmental effects. This is available for viewing between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday at:

Environment Agency
Rivers House
Sunrise Business Park
Higher Shaftesbury Road
Blandford Forum
DT11 8ST

Any person wishing to make representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the proposed improvement works should write, by 14 April 2018, to:

Steve Rendell, Project Manager
National Capital Programme Management Service
Environment Agency
Manley House
Kestrel Way
Exeter
EX2 7LQ

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