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London Borough of Hillingdon

… a key element for the sub- region’s strategic flood risk management, and this could be extended to green infrastructure for cross-boundary issues and in planning and valuing assets and investment in a holistic way. Specific recommendations are presented below. Recommendation F&GI1.1: The WLA should promote a holistic approach to valuing the wider benefits of flood infrastructure, working…

… to make properties more resilient to increasing flood risk; • make space for water storage by identifying strategic locations that are required for current and future flood risk management, and safeguard this land via Local Plans; • adopt a Catchment Based Approach to ensure recognition of catchment wide flood issues to justify the collection and use of S106 funding to investigate and develop…

… flood alleviation schemes within the catchment the development falls within; 7 SIDP engagement: Environment Agency HNL Sustainable Places Team (October 2020) 8 West London Strategic Flood Risk Assessment, - Section 5, WLA (2018) WLA SIDP, March 2022 • set up mechanisms to enable the use of CIL charges to be used for flood alleviation schemes across the Boroughs to address…

… West London is expecting significant growth, which will require infrastructure to support this growth whilst the climate change context brings new expectations for how this growth is supported – to protect against urban heat, flooding risk and drought and support Net Zero delivery. West London’s population is projected to increase by 343,800 people to 2040, at a similar growth rate to London…

… supply and the mitigation of flood risk are also of particular importance to West London. Investment in green infrastructure is a key component in West London’s place making agenda and innovative use of new digital infrastructure will need to be planned in a manner which is integrated with other forms of infrastructure intervention (e.g. transport). Recommendation 1: The WLA and West London…