The Meath County Development Plan (MCDP) seeks to establish a vision for how Meath should develop over the course of a planned period. To support the 2020-2026 MCDP we were appointed as SFRA consultants to identify the associated risks of future developments and propose mitigation measures.

Achieving this required expertise from across our disciplines and saw us provide a range of services. This included undertaking a flood risk assessment for the settlements, conducting and reviewing flood mapping, delivering hydraulic modelling and flood risk mapping and preparing a flood risk management plan.

Having worked with the client previously, we also understood that the communication phase of this project would be key to its successful adoption. Knowing this our objectives included reporting on submissions from the public consultation and making presentations to Meath County Council and the Elected Members.

As a result of our work policies and objectives have now been developed in order to formally manage the impacts of development across all settlements within the Meath. We were also able to support the development of a suite of best available flood mapping, which incorporates mapping from several different studies.