EIR Request - Baseline Information Lossiemouth

Request 101003266784

Please find attached a baseline enquiry to determine background drainage and flooding information regarding the application site and proposed developments (edged thick red on the attached location plan).  We would be grateful if you could consider this information request and provide the requisite information at your earliest convenience.

We would be grateful if you could provide us with the following information:

1. Moray Council FRA planning policies and technical guidance which must be adhered to in preparing the
requisite FRAs;
2. Details on any watercourses, including culverted watercourses, which are likely to affect the sites, including
their location and route;
3. Details of any historical flooding known to have affected the sites;
4. 100 year return period fluvial and/or 200 year return period marine flood levels that should be used to
assess flood risk at the sites, together with the method of assessment and currency of the same;
5. Estimated baseline 100 year return period flows for relevant watercourses;
6. Details of any flood defence measures in place, in addition to condition surveys associated with the
same, where these exist;
7. Details of any capacity/discharge restrictions that may exist in any watercourses in the vicinity of the
sites;
8. Details of reservoirs whose flow paths inundate the application sites, together with ownership and contact
details for each to enable enquiries to be made regarding the condition, maintenance and management
of the impoundments;
9. Details of the depth and velocity of flow associated with reservoir flood flows at the application sites;
10. Copies of the Draft Reservoir Flood Map for each reservoir;
11. Condition assessments for Moray Council assets in the vicinity of the site (flood defences, culverts,
bridges and pipes etc.);
12. Details of Moray Council inspection and maintenance regime for the aforementioned assets;
13. Ownership details for assets;
14. Any additional information that may be pertinent to completing a FRAs for the proposed developments.

Response 29-03-2023

1. Guidance for drainage and flooding can be found in “Supplementary Guidance on Flood Risk and Drainage Impact Assessment for New Developments” -www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file133646.PDF.  Further information can be found in NFP4 - https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-planning-framework-4/documents/

This information is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible.
2. Not held. No council asset watercourses that we are aware of. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
3. No historical flooding information for the sites that we are aware of. Section 17 - not held.
4. This information is exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of access please see here: 

SEPA flood maps - https://map.sepa.org.uk/floodmaps
5. See Q4.
6. No council asset flood defences protect the site. Section 17 - not held.

7. See Q1.
8.  This information is exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of access please see here: SEPA reservoir map - https://map.sepa.org.uk/reservoirsfloodmap/Map.htm
9. See Q8.
10. See Q8.
11. Council have no assets in the MOD base. Section 17 - not held.
12. See Q11.
13. See Q11.
14. For the runway desalting project there was significant work undertaken for flood risk and water quality carried out by a third party.