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Environment Agency-Coastal Group Chair meeting

Face to face 18th November 2015

The Wesley (previously known as the Methodist International Centre, MCI)
Euston House, 81-103 Euston Street, London, NW1 2EZ

AGENDA

Attendees:

Clare Dinnis - EA FCRM Strategy Delivery Deputy Director
Rachael Hill – EA FCRM Strategy Delivery Manager
Nick Hardiman – EA FCRM Strategic Overview Senior Advisor (Coast & Environment)
Eleanor Blundell – EA FCRM Strategic Overview Advisor (Coast)
Deborah Campbell – EA Area FCRM Manager (Lincs) & Coastal Portfolio Lead
Peter Woods – NE Coastal Group Chair
Mark Johnson – E Anglia Coastal Group Chair
Bryan Curtis – SE Coastal Group Chair / Overall Chairman
Neil Watson – Southern Coastal Group Chair
Philip Rees – SW Coastal Group Chair
Dave Harris – Severn Estuary Coastal Group Chair
Emyr Williams – Welsh Coastal Groups
Carl Green – NW Coastal Group Chair
Louise Pennington – NRW FCRM Senior Coastal Advisor

Eleanor Heron – EA Evidence Research Scientist
Chrissy Mitchell – EA Evidence Research Scientist
Tony Andryszewski – EA Asset Performance Senior Advisor
Peter Frampton – CH2M

Apologies:

Lunch and refreshments provided.

Room available from 12:00 for 12:30 start.

Agenda:

Chair – Nick Hardiman / Rachael Hill

12:30 Welcome and General Updates

Previous Actions ALL
Defra Adaptation Pathfinder Report Update EB
Habitat Creation Programme Update NH
Coastal Communities 2150 Good Practice Guide BC

13:00 Understanding Risk

13:00 State of the Nation – Update EB / NH
13:10 Asset Management and Asset Data TA
13:40 R&D Update EH
14:00 R&D – APT Outputs – Chrissy Mitchell CM
14:20 CG Chairs R&D Priorities ALL
14:45 NCERM Updates PF

15:00 BREAK

15:15 Governance – Coastal Groups

15:15 Coastal Group identity / format ALL
15:40 One Defra – attendance at CG Chairs meetings ALL
15:50 NRW Update LP
16:00 RFCCs & Coastal Group interaction ALL
16:20 The EA Coastal Portfolio DC
16:35 Succession planning BC


16:45 Governance – Ways of Working

16:45 Efficiencies ALL
17:00 Local Authority Revenue maintenance expenditure BC / PW

17:15 Forward Look

17:15 Conferences / meetings attended ALL
Future Conferences / meetings ALL

17:25 Date of next meeting & Close

Proposed agenda items for next meeting:
* RHCP
* SMP Hotspots


DETAILS OF THE MEETING

The meeting is to be held at The Wesley (previously known as the Methodist International Centre, MCI), Euston House, 81-103 Euston Street, London, NW1 2EZ

http://www.thewesley.co.uk/

The nearest tube / railway station is Euston (on the Northern and Victoria lines), or the London Overground service.

The hotel for the evening is a short tube journey away.

DETAILS FOR OVERNIGHT STAY:

We are staying at the Days Hotel Waterloo, 54 Kennington Road, London, SE1 7BJ
(Tel 020 7922 1311)

http://www.daysinn.co.uk/hotels/united-kingdom/london/days-hotel-london-waterloo/hotel-overview

The nearest tube stations are Lambeth North (on the Bakerloo line) or Waterloo (on the Northern, Jubilee and Bakerloo lines).

To get to Westminster for the Stakeholder meeting on the morning of 19th November 2015, you can either take the tube from Lambeth North (change at Waterloo or Embankment for Westminster). Alternatively, if the weather is fine, it is around a 25 minute walk.

The following people are booked in: Rachael Hill, Nick Hardiman, Eleanor Blundell, Neil Watson, Mark Johnson, Carl Green, Phil Rees, Bryan Curtis, Dave Harris, Emyr Williams, Peter Woods, Clare Dinnis

The room rate is £139.00 B&B. Eleanor Blundell will arrange payment for all, so there is no need to pay on departure.

On the evening of Wednesday 18th November 2015, we will meet in the bar of the hotel from 7pm, before eating out at The Three Stags, a pub just around the corner from the hotel.

http://www.thethreestags.london/index.php

We are booked in at 7.30pm.

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