Carmarthenshire residents asked for views on flooding
Residents in Carmarthenshire are being asked for their views on flooding. The council is preparing a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS) to address the risk of flooding in the area. Residents and businesses across the county are invited to give their views as part of a consultation exercise and help shape the strategy. Widespread flooding across the UK in the summer of 2007 resulted in the country’s largest peacetime emergency since World War Two. The Government commissioned an independent review of the lessons learned during the flooding emergency. The review was undertaken by Sir Michael Pitt, and is widely known as the Pitt Review. It called for urgent and fundamental changes in the way flood risk is managed across the country. As a result, the Flood and Water Management Act (FWMA) 2010 came into force and local authorities have been tasked with leading and co-ordinating local flood risk management. Carmarthenshire County Council is a designated Lead Local Flood Authority (...