Flood risk management

Flood risk management plans set out actions to reduce the impact of flooding.

Flood risk management plans

Flood risk management plans are updated on a 6-yearly cycle. The first cycle covered 2016 to 2022. The second cycle covers 2022 to 2028.

Scotland has been divided into 14 local plan districts for flood risk management. These districts are based on river catchments, with Dumfries and Galloway Council as the lead local authority for the Solway Local Plan District. We work in partnership with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish Water and other partners to develop strategies and plans to improve how we respond to and manage flood risk.

SEPA, working with others, has produced a flood risk management strategy for each local plan district. The strategy describes our agreed ambition for managing flooding and the priority of actions to be taken forward to deliver this.

2022 to 2028 flood risk management plan (cycle 2)

Following consultation on the flood risk management strategy and the flood risk management plan, SEPA published a flood risk management plan (DOCX, 86MB) for the Solway district in December 2021. This plan was used by local partners to develop the complementary local flood risk management plans (LFRMPs). The LFRMP provides more detail on how and when the actions set out in this plan, for 2022 to 2028, will be delivered.

 

A printed copy of the plan is available at Ewart Library in Dumfries and Stranraer Library.

2016 to 2022 flood risk management plan (cycle 1)

SEPA published a flood risk management strategy (PDF, 325KB) for the Solway district for the first cycle in December 2015. The supplementary Solway local flood risk management plan was published in June 2016.

 

The interim report to the local flood risk management plan was published in February 2019. It covered the first half of the cycle and gave details of progress made at that time in delivering the actions within the LFRMP. With the completion of the first cycle, a final report has been published, which details progress of actions as identified within the first cycle.