Derby: Our City Our River

Derby City Council and the Environment Agency have been working together on plans to reduce flood risk in the City.

The result is a new masterplan Our City Our River. The masterplan also seeks to protect the city’s heritage such as the Darley Abbey Mills World Heritage Site, and to promote sustainable economic development.

The masterplan has been developed because 3,600 properties are at risk of flooding in a severe flood event in the Lower Derwent Valley. A severe flood event has a 1% chance of occurring in a year, where the consequences would be extreme.

The masterplan seeks to ensure that Derby has the infrastructure it needs to reduce flood risk, and at the same time provides a number of opportunities for regeneration. To achieve this a number of “Opportunity Sites” are identified.

Views are now being sought on the masterplan. Copies of the masterplan can be viewed here.

If you need help responding to this planning consultation Kirkwells can help. Our planning experts have years of experience of developing planning policy. If you need help responding to Our City Our River call 01282 872570, or email with your query.

And if you are responding remember the consultation closes on the 9th of March 2012.

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