IS SIX YEAR
Hundreds of households woke up on August 12 last year to scenes like this
Councillors have questioned if six years is too long a gap between drawing up flood risk management plans.
One councillor said climate change meant weather patterns changed within three years, let alone six.
The issue was raised during a flooding update at Wednesday’s (May 19) Perth and Kinross Council environment and infrastructure committee meeting.
Conservative Strathearn councillor Roz McCall said: “We seem to have a reached a tipping point where climate change and our weather patterns are actually making us very much wetter.
“And six years is a long period of time when you are dealing with the aftermath of water because we know it can really travel.”
She added:“Climate change and weather patterns are very different now from where they were three years ago, let alone six years ago.”
PKC’s senior engineer Peter Dickson said the six-year gap was “enshrined in the legislation”under the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 but said there was constant reviewing and updating their information.
SNP Perth City Centre councillor Sheila McCole agreed six years was too long.
Cllr McCole asked for the scope and time-line around the Craigie Burn flood study.
She added:“Craigie Burn is quite long.
“In fact many of the residents who live along Craigie Burn who were subject to quite significant flooding have concerns the ongoing developments of properties and business all the way out to