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The Draft Flood and Water Management Bill proposes that local authorities take a leadership role in local flood risk management, that is flooding from ordinary watercourses, groundwater and surface runoff. In two tier areas, the county council will take this leadership role as will unitary authorities. Responsibilities will include setting a local strategy for local flood risk management; leadership and accountability for ensuring effective management of local flood risk from ordinary watercourses, surface run-off and groundwater; production of local flood risk assessments, maps and plans including an asset register; improved drainage and flood risk management expertise, co-ordination of Surface Water Management Plan production; drainage from non-Highways Agency roads; prioritising local investment; consenting and enforcement powers for certain works affecting ordinary watercourses; promoting partnerships with local planning authorities to produce Strategic Flood Risk Assessments.

The Local Government Association (LGA) has published the results of a study, commissioned by the LGA, Improvement and Development Agency, and the County Surveyors Society, which aims to establish, at a national scale, what additional resources, skills and hence training needs exist, to meet the Pitt Report recommendations and the lessons to be learnt from the UK floods in 2007 and the duties placed upon them of meeting their new obligations as set out in the new Draft Flood and Water Management Bill.