Appendix 2 - Tay Local Plan District - Cycle 2 Interim Report (DRAFT) v2
Perth and Kinross Council · 10 November 2025
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 1 TAY Local Flood Risk Management Plan Interim Report Published by Perth & Kinross Council December 2025
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 2
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 3 Publication date: December 2025 Contents 1 Background ......................................................................................................................................................... 4 2 How current is the Local Plan ...................................................................................................................... 5 3 Significant issues ............................................................................................................................................... 5 4 Other Actions ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 5 Next steps ............................................................................................................................................................ 7 6 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 7 Assessment of progress.................................................................................................................................. 9
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 4 1 Background The Interim Report is a legal requirement under Section 37 of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (the Act), which must be published between June 2024 and December 2025. This report includes a review of the Local Flood Risk Management Plan (LFRMP) for the Tay Local Plan District (LPD), published in December 2022, and information on the progress that has been made towards implementing the actions identified in the LFRMP. Further details on flood risk management responsibilities in Scotland and the legal requirement for the publication of this Interim Report can be found in Appendix 1. A copy of the Tay LPD LFRMP can be found at the following link: www.pkc.gov.uk/frmplans
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 5 2 How current is the Local Plan The LFRMP was published by the relevant Lead Local Authorities in December 2022 supplementing the FRMP published by SEPA in December 2021. The LFRMP details how the actions identified in the FRMP are to be implemented over the period 2022 to 2028. The FRMP and LFRMP are based on the National Flood Risk Assessment and the Potentially Vulnerable Areas designated at that time. The LFRMP continues to be considered appropriate based on the current understanding of flood risk within the Tay Plan District. 3 Significant issues Based on a progress review of the LFRMP for Tay LPD, the following key themes and issues have been identified that have or may have an impact on the delivery of actions to manage flood risk. Arrangements planned to deliver the remaining actions are described below. Where these issues have had an impact on the delivery of specific actions or actions across an LPD, this is detailed in the ‘Assessment of the progress’ of relevant actions. Significant weather events The Tay LPD area was adversely affected by significant weather events during October 2023, which had consequential impacts on the delivery of actions in the LFRMP from October 2023 onwards. For example, Perth & Kinross, Angus, Stirling and Dundee Council resources were deployed to deal with emergency events at that time as well as follow up activities and necessary works. This has caused consequential delays in the planned delivery of some actions as staff resources that would have been delivering planned actions have been delivering emergency actions. Further flood events affecting the Tay LPD occurred on 10 September 2023, 29 May 2024 and 21 July 2025 which required the reallocation of resources to assist in emergency and recovery actions. Funding The distribution of capital funding through the local authority general capital grant, including for flood protection schemes, is jointly agreed by Scottish Ministers and COSLA Leaders.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 6 The implementation of the Cycle 2 Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMPs) have been significantly affected by capital funding availability through the general capital grant for new flood protection schemes. There is a commitment to fund flood protection schemes from the Cycle 1 FRMPs first and many of these schemes have experienced cost escalations and extended delivery timelines. As a result, there have been no capital allocations through the general capital grant for the development and delivery of new flood protection schemes. This has delayed early-stage procurement and design activity for new flood protection schemes by other Responsible Authorities and disrupted the intended sequencing of flood risk interventions across the country. There is therefore a backlog of flood protection schemes that remain in development or have been paused pending the availability of capital funding through the general capital grant. The cumulative effect of these delays is a shortfall in the delivery of the flood protection schemes in the Cycle 2 FRMPs. The Scottish Government wrote to all local authorities on behalf of the Working Group on 14 August 2023 setting out a number of recommendations it made to improve the affordability of the Cycle 1 flood protection scheme programme. Recommendation 2 stated that all schemes must be notified (published) by 31 March 2024. South Kinross was published on 26 March 2024, but due to an earlier pause of the scheme there was insufficient time to publish Scone by the deadline and was removed from Cycle 1. The Milnathort scheme has been reduced in scale and cost and in the absence of any third- party landownership a formal published scheme was not considered to be required. Allocation of Resources The availability and retention of skilled staff to deliver flood risk actions has been a limiting factor in some areas. The increased workload created by the weather events noted above has put more pressure on existing staff resources. This has caused consequential delays in the planned delivery of actions.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 7 Arrangements planned to deliver the remaining actions affected by allocation of resource issues are described below and are detailed in Chapter 3. Procurement and Use of Consultants Scotland Excel is the main procurement framework route used to appoint design consultants to carry out flood studies. The framework contract ended in March 2025 and the process to retender the framework is underway at the time of writing. The delay continues to impact on the ability to commence new flood studies (Blair Atholl and Luncarty). 4 Other Actions Perth & Kinross Council Perth & Kinross Council has not carried out any additional actions, out with the actions identified within the Tay LFRMP. SEPA Over the past four years, SEPA has made significant improvements in the flood forecasting and warning service through its Flood Warning Development Framework 2022–2028. Key achievements include: Scottish Flood Forecast: A new 3-day public forecast developed with the Met Office, providing earlier and clearer flood risk information. MyFloodline: A redesigned registration platform that improves public access to flood warnings. Regional Improvements: Enhanced forecasting systems in the Scottish Borders and Firths of Forth and Tay to support upgraded warning services. AI Integration: SEPA has also embraced digital transformation and begun exploring the use of Artificial Intelligence to enhance forecasting capabilities. 5 Next steps A Final Report on the LFRMP will be published between June 2027 and December 2028. This will include an updated assessment of the progress made towards implementing the current actions, a summary of the current measures which were not implemented, with
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 8 reasons for their non-implementation; and a description of any other measures implemented since the LFRMP was finalised, which the lead authority considers have contributed to the achievement of the flood risk objectives. 6 Conclusions This report sets out the conclusions of the interim review of the Tay LFRMP as well as information on the progress made towards implementing the measures set out therein. The published Tay LFRMP remains current and relevant. Since its publication in December 2022, in general good progress has been made over the initial three years of Cycle 2. Flood studies have generally progressed as programmed, while progress on the larger and more complex flood protection schemes have been delayed. The Comrie Flood Protection Scheme is currently onsite and programmed for completion in October 2026. The South Kinross Flood Protection Scheme is currently delayed as a result of objections during the publication of the scheme. The majority of the actions identified in the LFRMP, approximately 85%, are expected to be delivered within the timescales set when the LFRMP was published in December 2022. Approximately 4% of the actions identified are delayed but expected to be delivered before the end of Cycle 2 in 2028. Approximately 11% of the actions are not expected to be delivered in Cycle 2 and will now be considered for future cycles. The delays in delivering actions are generally the result of issues that could reasonably be expected over a six year period, such as funding reviews and flood events since the LFRMP was published. While it is regrettable that these delays have occurred, every effort will be made to deliver the delayed actions as quickly as possible.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 9 7 Assessment of progress This section sets out an assessment of the progress towards implementing the actions set out in the LFRMP. There are actions that apply across all of the Tay LPD and actions that are specific to each of the 14 Potentially Vulnerable Areas (as defined under Section 13 of the Act), which are shown below in Figure 1. Figure 1: The Tay LPD with Potentially Vulnerable Areas identified (Reproduced from the Tay Flood Risk Management Plan, SEPA, December 2021)
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 10 The actions that apply to individual PVAs are shown in Figure 2. The summary progress is shown using the traffic light system, where each item is marked as Red, Amber or Green (RAG) and where: GREEN – The action has been completed successfully or is progressing as planned. No immediate attention is required. AMBER – The action is behind schedule or progressing slowly, but it is not critical. Some attention or action is required to get it back on track. RED – The action is significantly behind schedule or has not started at all.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: INTERIM REPORT 11 PKC - GENERAL RAG Adaptation plan Community engagement Community resilience group Data collection Emergency plan Flood defence maintenance Flood protection scheme Flood protection works Flood scheme or works implementation Flood study Flood study (options appraisal) Flood warning maintenance Land use planning Maintain flood protection scheme Sewer flood risk assessment Surface water management plan Aberfeldy GREEN GREEN RED GREEN GREEN Almondbank GREEN GREEN Alyth GREEN GREEN GREEN Bankfoot GREEN Blair Atholl GREEN GREEN GREEN Blairgowrie and Rattray GREEN GREEN GREEN GREEN Bridge of Earn GREEN AMBER GREEN GREEN GREEN Comrie GREEN GREEN RED GREEN GREEN GREEN AMBER Coupar Angus GREEN GREEN GREEN Dalguise GREEN GREEN Dunkeld and Birnam GREEN GREEN GREEN GREEN Forfar GREEN GREEN GREEN Kirriemuir GREEN GREEN GREEN GREEN RED Luncarty GREEN GREEN GREEN Methven GREEN GREEN Perth GREEN GREEN RED GREEN,RED,GREEN GREEN,GREEN GREEN GREEN AMBER Pitlochry GREEN GREEN RED GREEN GREEN Scone GREEN RED RED RED GREEN Spittalfield GREEN GREEN GREEN Weem GREEN GREEN Figure 2: Summary of progress of actions to manage flood risk in the Potentially Vulnerable Areas of the Tay LPD
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: INTERIM REPORT 12 PKC - GENERAL Progress with LPD-wide Actions This section sets out an assessment of the progress towards implementing actions that apply across all the Tay LPD over the six-year LFRMP, which is presented in Figure 3.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: INTERIM REPORT 13 PKC - GENERAL Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update Awareness raising Green Various SEPA has delivered a range of awareness-raising activities through targeted campaigns and collaborative partnerships. A key achievement has been the development of a suite of online flood education resources for pupils in P5–P7, designed to help young people build their understanding of flood risk and resilience. We have also refreshed how we communicate our flood warning and information tools to the public, guided by a user-led approach. Our emphasis on accessibility ensures that communities are better equipped to understand their flood risk and take action to build resilience. In addition, SEPA hosted its first-ever national online community event. The event attracted over 65 participants from communities across Scotland, with 96% of attendees reporting that they felt better informed about how their community could prepare for flooding. Local authorities have also developed their websites and social media to provide more advice and information on flood risk management. Stirling Council use SEPA’s flood alerts to deliver targeted flood awareness information. The Council are developing an annual programme of attending local highland games to deliver awareness raising objectives. The Council also works with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to deliver joint flooding messages at annual fire station open days. Scottish Water support SEPA and Responsible Authorities with their awareness raising activities as required and provide targeted communications for Scottish Water sewer flooding programme activities. Scottish Water raise awareness by producing and supplying targeted information to the public on large capital projects and detailed local studies. Forestry & Land Scotland (FLS) continues to engage with Responsible Authorities to make sure that the contribution of woodlands and forestry is recognised when natural flood management measures are promoted. Interactions with the public are sought at public National events (for example the Royal Highland Show) and regional/local events (for example the Turiff Show) to highlight the role that trees and woodland have in contributing to managing flood risk. This includes working with facilitators (from the charitable sectors and businesses) to help partnership initiatives that aim to improve public resilience to flood risk and to make sure that the communities have access to information and help/support. FLS continue to work on partnership initiatives to spatially identify where woodland can be planted and managed - these include the local communities. FLS engages with communities, NGOs and statutory stakeholders on the revision of Land Management Plans. Flooding is part of these catchment- focused discussions where FLS’s planners raise awareness of the benefits that trees and forestry can bring to flooding and the associated reduction of peak flows through:- 1)
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 14 Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update Evaporation of rainfall from canopy and; 2) Transpiration of heavy rain into the forest soils and geology. The Scottish Flood Forum has raised awareness with flood risk communities through a range of community engagement actions that have helped them to prepare for flooding. The SFF provided input to community meetings and events to support engagement with Responsible Authorities. The SFF produced flood risk community focussed newsletters which were sent to group and individuals across Scotland. The SFF also promoted and delivered peer to peer flood risk community networking events. Angus Council has been working closely with community groups in relation to flooding and has undertaken regular community engagement. Angus Council hosted events in March 2024 where residents could visit Flood Mary's "Floodmobile" and meet with the Scottish Flood Forum and members of the Angus Councils Flooding and Communities Teams. Angus Council hosted a Community Resilience Roadshow in April/May 2025 where residents could visit Flood Re and the Scottish Flood Forum's "Flo The Flood Bus"and meet with the Scottish Flood Forum and members of the Angus Councils Flooding and Communities Teams Data to support climate resilience Amber SEPA SEPA is undertaking extensive work to upgrade the Hydrometric Network both in terms of infrastructure and technology, including dramatically increasing the number of sites and utility of near live data across numerous users. A strategic vision and strategy is being developed for Hydrology Monitoring in Scotland to ensure that our service meets future user needs in an effective and efficient way in a changing climate. Emergency plans Green Category 1 and 2 Responders Local Authorities have developed emergency plans. Perth & Kinross Council further developed its Generic Emergency Response Plan (GERP) following Storm Babet and October 2023 incidents. The Plan is designed to ensure that contingency measures are in place for a coordinated and flexible response to flooding incidents to mitigate the effects of flooding emergencies on people, property and infrastructure. Angus Council has developed emergency plans that take account of new information received and the plans are constantly under review. Angus Council continue to support resilience partnerships whenever requested to do so. Over and above civil contingencies planning, in June 2017 Stirling Council established a formal Flood Partnership Group between the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service, the Scottish Flood Forum, SEPA, Emergency Planning Officers and the flooding teams from each Local Authority and Scottish Water. There is potential to expand the working group to include other agencies or the voluntary sector. Ongoing dialogue and quarterly meetings take place between these
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 15 Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update parties to better plan joint emergency responses to community risks. Fife Council's updated Flood Emergency Plan was published in November 2016. As a Category 2 Responder, Scottish Water has continued to support regional and local resilience partnerships as required. SEPA plays a central role in Scotland’s Flood Warning Service, working in partnership with local authorities, emergency services, and other responders under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 to support emergency planning and help protect communities from the impacts of flooding. Flood forecasting Green SEPA SEPA delivers the Scottish Flood Forecasting Service in partnership with the Met Office. This service continues to deliver daily outlooks of flood risk and potential impacts for the nation through its 3 day Scottish Flood Forecast forecast for the public and 5 day Flood Guidance Statement for professional partners. Flood Alerts and Warnings are issued by SEPA's flood duty officers when flooding is possible and/or expected. Flood warning development framework Green SEPA SEPA published the Flood Warning development Framework for 2022-2028 including a programme of works to maintain and improve SEPA's forecasting and warning services. SEPA has developed a road map for improving surface water forecasting and SEPA now have a surface water forecasting tool that has been developed called PREDICTOR. Further recommendations exist to develop these surface water capabilities. SEPA's partnership with the Met Office continues with the publication of daily 3 day forecasts for the public and 5 day forecasts for professional partners. Future flood risk management planning Amber SEPA SEPA is currently preparing the Flood Risk Management Plans for the upcoming cycle (2027– 2033) in collaboration with key stakeholders. This process includes a formal consultation phase scheduled for 2026. The new plans will introduce key elements of the Scottish Flood Resilience Strategy and align with the objectives of other national frameworks, such as the Scottish National Adaptation Plan. Following the publication of the Scottish Flood Resilience Strategy in 2025, SEPA is embedding its principles and ambitions into a refreshed vision and strategic direction for its flooding services. Guidance development Amber Scottish Government, SEPA As part of delivering the Scottish Flood Resilience Strategy, SEPA is contributing to the development of a flood advisory service. This includes updating and creating tailored guidance to support flood risk management projects. In collaboration with Scottish Forestry and other UK forestry agencies, Forest Research published the UK Forestry Standard Practice Guide in October 2022. This guide offers practical advice to landowners, land managers, and public authorities on how to design and manage forests and woodlands to help reduce flood risk.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 16 Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update Hazard Mapping updates Green SEPA SEPA has a phased, multi year programme of hazard map updates. Updates to our coastal map for Outer Hebrides, Orkney and North East Scotland were published in November 2023 and South East Scotland is due to be published in 2026. A review of coastal modelling and mapping in South West Scotland will follow. In February 2025 SEPA published a new national flood hazard map for surface water and small watercourses, entirely replacing the previous surface water map release. SEPA is updating its approach to fluvial hazard map updates including user needs analysis, technological and methodological improvements in order to meet the next statutory hazard map update deadline of December 2031. Land use planning Green SEPA, Local Authorities SEPA-Following the publication of the Scottish Government’s National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) in February 2023, SEPA has undertaken a programme of updates to its land use planning guidance on flood risk. This work, carried out in consultation with key stakeholders, has focused on ensuring alignment with Policy 22 in particular. The programme is now largely complete, and planning authorities are progressing with the implementation of NPF4 through the spatial elements of their upcoming local development plans. The current Perth & Kinross Local Development Plan (LDP2) contains planning policy and development allocations which ensure that new development at medium to high risk of flooding is avoided (unless flood protection measures to the appropriate standard already exist and are maintained, are under construction, or are a planned measure in a current flood risk management plan). SEPA and Perth & Kinross Council’s flooding team input to the planning application process as necessary to implement flood risk policy and ensure there is an appropriate assessment and mitigation of flood risk as detailed development proposals come forward. The Council's flooding team has reviewed 1717 planning applications since the start of the 2022 as a consultee in the planning process. The Council's flooding team has also provided additional advice on flood risk management to the Planning Authority out with these formal consultations. Perth & Kinross Council is reviewing LDP2, which was adopted in November 2019, to produce LDP3. The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 introduced a number of changes to the key steps for preparing a Local Development Plan. Preparation of a new-style LDP will include:- (1) evidence gathering report and early community and stakeholder engagement leading to evidence report, (2) submission of Evidence Report to Scottish Ministers for an independent Gate Check, (3) Collaborative plan preparation, leading to publication of the Proposed Plan for consultation, (4) submission of the Proposed Plan to Scottish Ministers for an independent examination of
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 17 Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update outstanding issues, and (5) Adoption of the Local Development Plan. The LDP3 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment was finalised February 2025, and LDP3 is currently at stage 2, with its Proposed Plan programmed for publication January 2027. Maintenance Green Local Authorities, asset / land managers Local Authorities have continued to inspect and assess watercourses and carry out clearance and repair works where such works would substantially reduce flood risk. This has included producing schedules of clearance and repair works and making these available for public inspection. In Perth & Kinross, the Council’s routine watercourse inspections are a carried out either annually, six monthly or quarterly, depending on the flood risk associated with each watercourse. Further reactive inspections have been carried out when issues have been highlighted or during times of flooding. Where a flood risk is identified, and clearance and repair works would substantially reduce that flood risk, then those works are included on the Council's clearance and repair schedule and carried out. Significant examples of clearance and repair works are noted within various PVAs in this report. The Council has also continued to inspect and maintain existing flood protection schemes. Perth & Kinross Council also operates a monitoring programme for the inspection and maintenance of road gullies, using a risk-based approach. Each gully has been identified (position and construction type) and recorded on the Councils Roads Maintenance Management System. Gullies are cleaned on the following cycle: A Class roads (high speed) - annually, B class, C Class and Unclassified roads and streets are cleaned on a two-year cycle. Known flood locations are cleaned twice annually. Reports of blocked gullies are assessed and if considered to be a potential cause of flooding to properties will be cleaned on an ad hoc basis or left till the next cleaning cycle, if assessed as unlikely to cause flooding to properties. The public can also contact the Council to highlight issues with any road gullies. In Angus, the Council’s maintenance contract is let and managed on yearly basis. Reactive maintenance is also undertaken where issues are identified. Stirling Council has a successful watercourse inspection regime in place which identifies risks. Where the problems reside in private property the Council notifies landowners of their riparian responsibilities. The Council also has a fortnightly maintenance regime in place where key hot spot locations have been identified. This work is carried out by contractors and managed by the Council’s flooding team. Any additional works identified are added to a schedule of works and prioritised based on risk and the available budget. Scottish Water have carried out risk based inspection, maintenance and repair on the public sewer network. Natural flood management mapping Green SEPA SEPA is developing an improved evidence base for updating natural flood management mapping using the Potentially Vulnerable Areas published in December 2024 and the revised National Flood Risk Assessment data which will be available in March 2026. This will enable a
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 18 Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update focussed catchment approach to be developed, building on the existing national approach and providing a higher resolution of opportunity mapping. National flood risk assessment Green SEPA SEPA is applying updated evidence and methodologies to produce the revised National Flood Risk Assessment, scheduled for publication in December 2025. The underlying data informed the identification of Potentially Vulnerable Areas for the next flood risk management cycle, which were published in December 2024. This evidence base will also shape the objectives and actions set out in the 2027–2033 flood risk management plans, due for release in December 2027. National surface water mapping Green SEPA In February 2025 SEPA published a new national flood hazard map for surface water and small watercourses, entirely replacing the previous surface water map release. This new release included publication for the first time of a future flood map, to help users understand the potential impacts of climate change. To accompany the publication a number of improvements were also made to the "Check an area's long term flood risk viewer". Reservoirs Green SEPA /Local Authorities SEPA continues to develop its assessment of flood risk from dam failure and use these assessments to direct a proportionate regulatory approach to ensure reservoir safety. We are exploring the use of the UK emergency alerts service for issuing warnings in the event of a reservoir emergency. Local Authorities continue to comply with the Reservoir (Scotland) Act 2009 and appoint a suitable 'all reservoir panel engineer' to carry out, at the appropriate time, an annual and 10-yearly inspection of reservoirs under their ownership. Angus Council manages 6 Controlled Reservoirs (2 as part of Flood Protection Schemes and 4 former water supply). Angus Council manages, inspects and maintains these reservoirs in full accordance with the Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011. Scottish Flood Defence Asset Database Amber SEPA SEPA’s ongoing Flood Asset Project is strengthening the quality of evidence and data management on behalf of all flooding partners. This work will deliver an improved national database to replace the outdated original, which is no longer available, enabling more informed decisions on asset location, maintenance, flood warnings, risk management, and land use planning. Self help Green Various Local Authorities have engaged and supported their local communities to become more resilient to emergency situations, including flood events. Advice has been given on how to prepare for flooding, install property level protection and the community resilience. In Perth & Kinross, a community resilience fund was created to work with community groups to build and support community resilience during weather events and emergencies. A total of 63 Community Resilience Groups have been established in Perth & Kinross. Further details are provided within the relevant areas of Section 3.2 of this report. Angus Council's Roads Assets,
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 19 Action RAG Status Delivery Lead Update and Communities Teams have been working closely with affected communities and the Scottish Flood Forum to develop community resilience. Where communities work with the Stirling Council’s resilience and risk team to develop community resilience plans, the Council will also provide flood pods that can be distributed in a time of need. The Scottish Flood Forum provided support and advice to communities to help people protect themselves and their property. This includes advice to residents on PFR assessments and advice on insurance and developing community resilience to prepare for flooding. Figure 3: Progress with LPD-wide Actions for the Tay LPD
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: INTERIM REPORT 20 PKC - GENERAL Progress with PVA-specific Actions This section sets out an assessment of the progress towards implementing actions that are specific to each of the 14 PVAs as shown in Figure 2. Assessments of the progress of Red and Amber actions within each PVA are presented.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 21 Target Area Aberfeldy 183 Action Type Flood protection scheme 18301 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update The delivery of a Flood Protection Scheme is subject to capital funding being made available (up to 80% capital grant funding from the Scottish Government with the remaining funding being provided from Perth & Kinross Council's capital programme). The implementation of Cycle 2 projects has been significantly affected by delays in capital grant funding - refer to Section 3 of the interim report for further details. Target Area Bridge of Earn 205 Action Type Flood study 20501 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status AMBER Update Perth & Kinross Council's Flooding team appointed consulting engineers RSK to carry out the Bridge of Earn Surface Water Flood Study in April 2025. The study will investigate the surface water flood risk and identify potential options for managing that risk whilst assessing the standard of protection of the existing flood defences on the Deich and Yellow Burn. The study is programmed for completion in Spring 2026. Target Area Comrie 213 Action Type Flood protection scheme 21301 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update Perth & Kinross Council awarded the construction contract for the Comrie Flood protection Scheme to Balfour Beatty in August 2024. The construction phase is programmed to take 24 months between September 2024 and October 2026. Balfour Beatty mobilised to site in September 2024, initially undertaking site clearance and site establishment works, before commencing with the main construction operations in early 2025. The construction phase is currently on time and budget for October 2026. Target Area Comrie 213 Action Type Surface water management plan 21303 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status AMBER Update Perth & Kinross Council appointed consulting engineer, Sweco UK Ltd, to deliver the Comrie SWMP in February 2025. This is expected to be completed by spring 2026 Target Area Kirriemuir 241 Action Type Flood scheme or works implementation 24101 Action Delivery Lead Angus RAG Status RED Update The delivery of a Flood Protection Scheme is subject to capital funding being made available (up to 80% capital grant funding from the Scottish Government with the remaining funding being provided from Angus Council's capital programme). The implementation of Cycle 2 projects has been significantly affected by delays in capital grant funding - refer to Section 3 of the interim report for further details.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 22 Target Area Perth 253 Action Type Flood protection works 25301 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update The delivery of Bridgend Surface Water Flood Protection Scheme is subject to capital funding being made available (up to 80% capital grant funding from the Scottish Government with the remaining funding being provided from Perth & Kinross Council's capital programme). The implementation of Cycle 2 projects has been significantly affected by delays in capital grant funding - refer to Section 3 of the interim report for further details. Target Area Perth 253 Action Type Surface water management plan 25304 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status AMBER Update Perth & Kinross Council's Flooding team appointed consulting engineers Amey to deliver the Perth Surface Water Management Plan (SWMP) in December 2021. The project is nearing completion with community engagement planned to disseminate the outputs of the project from October 2025. The conclusions and recommendations of the SWMP will then be reported to PKC's Climate Change & Sustainability committee later in 2025. Target Area Perth 253 Action Type Flood study (options appraisal) 25306 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update The delivery of this action is being reviewed alongside the Perth SWMP due to overlap between the projects. Depending on the outcome of this, this action may not be required. Target Area Pitlochry 254 Action Type Flood protection scheme 25401 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update The delivery of a Flood Protection Scheme is subject to capital funding being made available (up to 80% capital grant funding from the Scottish Government with the remaining funding being provided from Perth & Kinross Council's capital programme). The implementation of Cycle 2 projects has been significantly affected by delays in capital grant funding - refer to Section 3 of the interim report for further details. Target Area Scone 255 Action Type Flood protection scheme 25501 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update The delivery of a Flood Protection Scheme is subject to capital funding being made available (up to 80% capital grant funding from the Scottish Government with the remaining funding being provided from Perth & Kinross Council's capital programme). Scone FPS has been removed from Cycle 1 and is awaiting the conclusion of a Scottish Government/CoSLA
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 23 review to understand how/if it will be considered for funding as part of Cycle 2 or Cycle 3. Target Area Scone 255 Action Type Maintain flood protection scheme 25502 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update Perth & Kinross Council's Roads Maintenance Partnership to carry out annual scheme inspections upon construction of the scheme. Maintenance works will be carried out as required. However, Scone FPS has been removed from Cycle 1 and is awaiting the conclusion of a Scottish Government/CoSLA review to understand how/if it will be considered for funding as part of Cycle 2 or Cycle 3. Target Area Scone 255 Action Type Flood study (options appraisal) 25503 Action Delivery Lead Perth and Kinross RAG Status RED Update Natural Flood Management and the Barrel Drain are being considered as part of the Scone Surface Water Management Plan. Scone FPS has been removed from Cycle 1 and is awaiting the conclusion of a Scottish Government/CoSLA review to understand how/if it will be considered for funding as part of Cycle 2 or Cycle 3.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 24 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations FRM Flood Risk Management FRMP Flood Risk Management Plan ICS Integrated Catchment Study LFRMP Local Flood Risk Management Plan LPD Local Plan District NFM Natural Flood Management PVA Potentially Vulnerable Area Q&S Quality & Standards (Scottish Water) SEPA Scottish Environment Protection Agency SR10/15/21 Spending Review periods for 2010-2015, 2015-2021 and 2021-2027 for Scottish Water capital maintenance expenditure SWMP Surface Water Management Planning
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 25 Appendix 1: Flood risk management responsibilities in Scotland and the legal requirement for the publication of this Interim Report
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 26 Flood risk management in Scotland The Scottish Ministers, SEPA and responsible authorities must exercise their flood risk related functions with a view to reducing overall flood risk (reference Section 1(1) of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009). Through the preparation of a national flood risk assessment and setting of objectives to reduce the level of flood risk by SEPA, which is published in Flood Risk Management Plan’s, and the publication of LFRMP’s by ‘lead’ local authorities, which detail how and when the actions agreed to meet these objectives are to be done, SEPA and all responsible authorities must act to manage flood risk in a sustainable way. Tay Flood Risk Management Plan Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan Legal requirement This document sets out the conclusions of the review of the LFRMP for the Tay LPD as required by Section 37 of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (the “Act”). 37 Local flood risk management plans: Interim Report (1) Not earlier than 2 years and not later than 3 years after a local flood risk management plan is finalised, the lead authority must — (a) review the plan, and (b) publish a report on the conclusions of the review including information on the progress that has been made towards implementing the measures identified in the implementation part of the plan. (2) The lead authority must make copies of the report available for public inspection. The Tay LFRMP was published in December 2022, therefore, the Interim Report needs to be published between June 2024 and December 2025. The Interim Report provides a summary of the LFRMP actions (‘measures’) and the proposed delivery timescales. The information on progress will include: an assessment of the progress towards implementing each of the actions; reasons for any actions where delivery is not as planned; and
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 27 a description of arrangements planned to deliver the remaining actions and to address delayed actions. The Interim Report is published by the ‘Lead Local Authority’ as defined by Section 34(9) of the Act in partnership with SEPA and the ‘Responsible Authorities’, as defined by Section 5 of the Act, will be in the LPD. The approval of the Interim Report will be in accordance with the agreed governance arrangements in the LPD. The Responsible Authorities for the Tay LPD are: Perth & Kinross Council (lead authority) Angus Council Fife Council Stirling Council SEPA Scottish Water Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Cairngorms National Park Forestry and Land Scotland Nature Scot Transport Scotland Network Rail The lead authority must also publish a Final Report on the LFRMP under Section 38 of the Act between June 2027 and December 2028 (not earlier than 5 years and not later than 6 years from the publication of the Plan). The Final Report will provide an assessment of current actions and a summary of current actions not implemented, with reasons for their non-implementation. The Final Report will also include a description of any other measures implemented, which the lead authority considers have contributed to the achievement of the objectives summarised in the LFRMP. Publication The published Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP will be made available for public inspection, as per Section 37(2) of the Act, via the website of the lead authority, Perth & Kinross Council: http://www.pkc.gov.uk/frmplans
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 28 Links to the published Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP will also be provided from Scottish Government, SEPA and other responsible authority websites. A hard (paper) copy of the published Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP is also available for public inspection on weekdays between 9am and 5pm at the following location(s): Pullar House, 35 Kinnoull Street, Perth, PH1 5GD Auchterarder Library, Chapel Wynd, Auchterarder, PH3 1BL Blairgowrie Area Office, 46 Leslie Street, Blairgowrie, PH10 6AQ Crieff Area Office, 32 James Square, Crieff, PH7 3EY Pitlochry Area Offices/Library, 26/28 Atholl Road, Pitlochry, PH16 5BX Breadalbane Community Campus, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy, PH15 2DU Loch Leven Community Campus & Library, The Muirs, KY14 8FQ Copies of the published Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP may also be available at offices of other responsible authorities. Those persons living in the Angus, Stirling and Fife Council areas of the Tay District should contact their own local authority in the first instance: Angus Council ACCESSline 03452 777 778 Fife Council General Enquiries 03451 550 000 Stirling Council General Enquiries 01786 404 040 Detailed arrangements for publication of the Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP are in Appendix 2.
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 29 Appendix 2: Publication details
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 30 Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 Publication of Interim Report for the Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan (LFRMP) – Summary of Proposed Communications Activities The following communications activities will be used to publicise and make the Interim Report available: Upon finalising the Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP, Sections 37(2), 53 and 54 of the Act specifically require Perth & Kinross Council, as the lead authority, to o Publish an Interim Report on the Tay LFRMP; o Make copies of the Interim Report available for public inspection free of charge and at all reasonable times; o Publicise the arrangements for making it available by means of a notice in the appropriate newspapers (at least one Scottish newspaper and such local newspapers within the LPD as considered appropriate) The Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP will be published in a hard copy format and a pdf version will also be made available on the Council’s website at Hard copies of the Interim Report for the Tay LFRMP will be held and made available upon request at the Perth & Kinross Council’s Area offices (in Perth, Auchterarder, Blairgowrie, Crieff, Pitlochry, Aberfeldy, and Kinross) in a similar process to the public viewing of planning applications. A letter (with a pdf version of the report on DVD) will be sent to SEPA and the Scottish Ministers. On or before the publication date [to be advised], public notices will be placed in the Scotsman, The Edinburgh Gazette, the Courier, and Stirling Observer, and fulfilling our duties to publicise the Interim Report in accordance with Sections 37, 53 and 54 of the 2009 Act. An e-mail with a link to the interim reports will be sent to all Councillors within Perth & Kinross. In July 2021, letters were issued to each community council that falls within a PVA to notify them of the publication of the Tay LFRMP and how to access it both electronically and in hard copy. We will send these community councils a further letter to update and inform them of the publication of the Interim Report. Subject to the agreement of the Tay LPD Partnership, a draft of the Interim Report will be uploaded to the Council’s web site at www.pkc.gov.uk/frmplans This web page will also be updated to give further information about the publication of the Interim Report. There is also a link to the SEPA FRMP from the Council’s webpage. Announcements will be posted on social media (the Perth & Kinross Council Facebook and Twitter pages). These announcements will direct enquiries to the above PKC flooding webpage in the first instance where there is text describing the 2009 Act and a
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Tay Local Flood Risk Management Plan 2022-2028: Interim Report 31 link to the Tay LFRMP. They can also access the FRMPs via a link provided on the Perth & Kinross Council Flooding pages. Articles have previously been placed in ‘Perth & Kinross News’ which is the Council's newspaper for people who live and work in the area. It is issued twice a year and gives residents up-to-date information about the services we provide, where we are doing well and how we plan to improve. We intend to place a further update article in the edition closest to the publication of the Interim Report as well. An e-mail will be sent to any Local resilience groups within a PVA. Information will be placed in any other publications which are considered appropriate (community magazines for instance). As the lead authority for the Tay LPD, we would suggest that the other local authorities within the Tay LPD Partnership undertake the following minimum activities in order to coordinate communications across the Tay LPD as follows: Write to the relevant Community Councils within the PVAs in their local authority area to alert them to the publication of the Interim Report and advise them how to access it. They can then disseminate this information to their members and potentially other local groups that the Council may not have contact with. Update Council webpages to provide an update on the Flood act and a link to the Tay LFRMP and SEPA FRMP. Social media announcements. Each local authority will be able to share/like/retweet each other’s social media posts to increase the audience reached. SEPA, the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, Cairngorms National Park, Forestry & Land Scotland and Scottish Water are also invited to advertise the publication of the Interim Report on their websites and via social media. Any further communications activities are then up to each individual responsible authority based on their individual Communications and / or Consultation policies and procedures. If you or someone you know would like a copy of this document in another language or format, (on occasion, only a summary of the document will be provided in translation), this can be arranged by contacting the Customer Service Centre on 01738 475000. You can also send us a text message on 07824 498145. All Council Services can offer a telephone translation facility. BSL users can contact us via Contact Scotland BSL, the online British Sign Language video relay interpreting service. Find out more on the Contact Scotland BSL website https://contactscotland-bsl.org