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London Borough of Hillingdon

… 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…

…, such as the Green Grid concept with small wetlands, ponds, ditches, swales and woodlands to improve flood risk management. These also bring other benefits such as increased biodiversity, improved water quality, amenity and access to watercourses. There are clear integration opportunities with green infrastructure for flood management. Green infrastructure further supports reduction in excess heat…

… of growth 31 4. Strategic Infrastructure Baseline and Needs 33 4.1. Introduction 33 4.2. Transport 35 4.3. Energy 76 4.4. Water 94 4.5. Flood management 105 4.6. Green-Blue Infrastructure 119 4.7. Digital 133 4.8. Higher education and health provision 151 5. Infrastructure Need Categorisation 159 5.1. Introduction 159 5.2. Infrastructure categorisation factors 159 5.3. Strategic…

… 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…