9^th September 2016

We are making good progress on finalising the Review report. The Review team are working with the various teams across industry and government to ensure the content of the report is up to date with current activities within the industry landscape.

We plan to publish the Review report as soon as we can and will keep you informed regarding when that will be.  We appreciate your continued patience in the meantime.

Peter was appointed to chair a Roundtable looking specifically at property level flood resilience and to develop an action plan. The property level flood resilience Review Action Plan was published on 8^th  September as part of the National Flood Resilience Review and   can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-property-level-flood-resilience-bonfield-2016-action-plan

Lessons learnt from last winter’s floods have helped build a new approach so the nation is better prepared and more resilient to flooding.

This review report can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plan-for-stronger-flood-defences

The review includes:

• £12.5 million for new temporary defenses, such as barriers and high volume pumps, at seven strategic locations around the country. By this winter, the Environment Agency (EA) will have four times more temporary barriers than last year.
• Utility companies’ commitment to increase flood protection of their key local infrastructure, such as phone networks and water treatment works, so they are resilient to extreme flooding.
• A new stress test of the risk of flooding from rivers and the sea in England. For the first time, Met Office forecasts of extreme rainfall scenarios will be linked with Environment Agency modelling to provide a new assessment of flood risk.

This work involves a complete review and update ahead of a revised publication to come into effect in 2017.  This work has been moving forward in close coordination with the Retrofit Standards Group led headed up by Peter Rickaby.

Workshops were held on the revision of PAS 2030 and 2031 on Thursday 8^th and Friday 9^th September.

Future Events

Peter Bonfield, Kanta Nar, Ben Golding, Pam Wynne, Alison Oliver, Nadine Robinson, and Diana Menville

Work-streams are:

·       Advice & Guidance,

·       Insulation/Fabric,

·       Holistic Property Consideration

·       Home Energy Technologies

·       Smart Meters,

·       Compliance & Enforcement

·       Quality & Standards,

·       Consumer Protection,

·       Skills & Training

We welcome your interest in the work-streams, so please continue to send in your contributions, thoughts and comments to our joint email account, BonfieldReview@beis.gov.uk