This document explains the plans to reduce flood risk to approximately 290 properties in the Badsey Brook catchment in Worcestershire.

The Environment Agency considers a wide range of different measures to address the flood and coastal erosion risk to communities and property. The measures needed for each location are considered on a case by case basis. Some of the measures that may be considered include:

• building flood and coastal defences
• flood storage reservoirs
• land management
• portable defences

The strategies and schemes are grouped by the geographic areas the Environment Agency operates from.

View the map showing the geographic areas of the Environment Agency’s operations.

The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015 (the ‘regulations’) impose obligations on operators of economic activities requiring them to prevent, limit or remediate environmental damage caused by their operations.

Liability to Remediate

If the enforcing authority decides that damage is environmental damage it must notify the operator of any activity or activities that caused the damage.

Regulation 21 gives an operator a right of appeal against a notice, served by the enforcing authority

Remediation Notices

Following an operator’s submission of proposals to remediate the environmental damage, or if a proposal is not received within a specified time limit, the enforcing authority must serve a remediation notice on the operator.

An appeal may only be brought against those parts of the remediation notice that are different from the proposals made by the responsible operator.

Defra Guidance

Defra Environmental Liability Guidance

• Environmental liability
• Environmental permitting
• Water Abstraction and Impoundment
• Hazardous Substances Consent
• Waste Carrier

You might need an environmental permit if your business manages or produces waste or emissions that pollute the air, water or land.