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Bristol - Environmental Impact Assessment Land Drainage Improvement Works
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ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTENTION NOT TO PREPARE
AN ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT Regulation 5 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Land Drainage Improvement Works (Amended) Regulations 1999
SI 1999/1783
Tubbs Bottom Reservoir Statutory Improvements
The Environment Agency gives notice that it proposes to carry out improvement works to the flood defences on Tubbs Bottom Reservoir (River Avon) south of Iron Acton in South Gloucestershire between Chill Wood (ST 67855 82866) and the track leading to Frampton End Road (ST 67588 82740), a distance of 11 metres and the length of the access track. The proposed improvement works will involve the following: Further enhancement of the left bank (11m section) to provide additional erosion protection and improve future performance against extreme flood events. The works will prevent surface erosion and protection of the dam core, delivering a resilient, long term solution that complies with regulatory requirements.
The Environment Agency 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.
The proposed works are permitted development under the Environmental Impact Assessment 15 of 56 (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (EIA LD Regs 1999):
– The works are development (within the meaning of section 55 T&CPA 1990).
– The project consists of works in, on or under a watercourse or to land drainage functions.
– The works are required in connection with the improvement, maintenance or repair to land drainage functions.
– The works constitute improvements within the definition of improvements in paragraph 2 of the EIA (Land Drainage
Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (as amended) i.e. ‘deepen, widen, straighten or otherwise improve any existing watercourse or remove or alter mill dams, weirs or other obstructions to watercourses, or raise, widen or otherwise improve any existing drainage work’.
The environmental issues on this project can be managed by an appropriate environmental management regime. Overall, ecological impacts can be managed through targeted surveys, precautionary working methods and mitigation aligned with the final design.
Additional information available for the works:
• Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (PEA)
• Ground Level Tree Assessment
• Environmental Action Plan (EAP)
• Water Framework Directive (WFD) Assessment
This information can be obtained by visiting the Environment Agency office in the bellow address:
Horizon House, Deanery Road, Bristol, BS1 5AH, Monday to Thursday 9am-4pm.
Any person wishing to make representations in relation to the likely environmental effects of the proposed improvement works should do so, in writing, to the address specified below, within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice.
Lia Kasma, Horizon House, Deanery Road, Bristol, BS1 5AH.
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