Appendices
Including SEA, AA and SFRA
Submission from the Office of Public Works (submission 140)
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
advised that Cork City Council accept no responsibility for losses or damages arising due to assessments of vulnerability to flooding of lands, uses and developments. Owners, users and developers are advised to take all reasonable measures to assess the vulnerability to flooding in a particular area, prior to submitting a planning application. ”
Consideration of Climate Change Impacts The inclusion of Future Scenarios Mapping is welcomed. However, these only show the increase in extents of a 0.1% AEP flood event, i.e. Flood Zone B. It would be beneficial if these potential future flood extents could also show the increase in the 1% AEP flood event, i.e. Flood Zone A, and if the maps could be shown overlaid with the land use zonings, to demonstrate any developments that could potentially be affected by climate change. The OPW recommend that the Draft Plan addresses how climate change has been considered in the production of this development plan. The potential impacts of climate change include increased rainfall intensities, increased fluvial flood flows and rising sea levels. In line with the Guidelines, while Flood Zones are defined on the basis of current flood risk, planning authorities need to consider such impacts in the preparation of plans, such as by avoiding development in areas potentially prone to flooding in the future, providing space for future flood defences, specifying minimum floor levels and setting specific development management objectives.
It is recommended to update the SFRA mapping as recommended in the observation. Climate change considerations have been integrated into the Plan, including in paragraph 11.259 and Strategic Objective 4: Climate and Environment. It is recommended to include additional text to demonstrate this is. Recommendation: (i) Update SFRA Mapping as recommended. The SFRA GIS layers, including those relating to predictive indicators and Future Scenario mapping, will be made available for use in assessing individual planning applications as part of the Council’s development managem ent functions. (ii) Insert the following text into the Plan: “Climate Change and Flooding The Planning System and Flood Risk Management Guidelines for Planning Authorities and Technical Appendices, 2009' recommends that a precautionary approach to climate change is adopted due to the level of uncertainty involved in the potential effects. In contributing towards compliance with the Guidelines, climate change
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