Central Bedfordshire Council is asking residents and town and parish councils to input into a new Local Flood Risk Management Strategy.
As part of the Flood and Water Management Act, the council is preparing a draft strategy that will consider the flood risk across the area and identify how these risks can be better managed in a way that enhances the natural and built environment.
The strategy is at a very early stage, with questionnaires being used to gather together local knowledge about historical flooding.
The questionnaire is available on the council’s website www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/surveys/Floodstrategy/flooding_strategy.htm.
Residents can feed their comments through using this questionnaire, but a full public consultation on the draft strategy will take place in the spring.
This week, the LBO reported that the Environment Agency had shelved a £5.7m flood relief scheme for Clipstone Brook, Leighton, because they deemed the area to be no longer at risk of flooding.