Document Status
Current
Supplement
Core Supplement
Series
Technical Advice Note
Abstract
Details how the Department for Infrastructure (Rivers) operates when providing advice to planning authorities on applications for development within the flood inundation area of controlled reservoirs. Discusses the legislative and policy context; reservoir safety assurance; controlled reservoir development planning flood maps; flood risk assessment - content; flood risk assessment - analysis; and flow charts.
Subjects
- Flood management
- Civil engineering, infrastructure and public utilities
- Reservoirs/dams
- Environmental planning/land
- Public health/water engineering
- Flood defences
- Planning and development
Publisher History
The Department for Infrastructure (DFI) is one of nine Northern Ireland departments, responsible for: regional strategic planning and development policy; transport strategy and sustainable transport policy; public transport policy and performance; road safety and vehicle regulation policy; provision and maintenance of all public roads; river and sea defence maintenance and the construction of flood alleviation schemes; provision of flood maps and risk information; policy on water and sewerage services among others. Formerly Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department for Regional Development, Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland and Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, Planning Service.