Purpose

In 2022 Bristol City Council was successful in
obtaining £6m in grant funding as part of Defra’s Flood
and Coastal Innovation Resilience Programme (FCRIP). This is being
delivered with the Resilient Frome programme of works, which is
looking at new and innovative ways to manage flood risk within the
river Frome catchment via six workstreams:
-Natural Flood Management
-Sustainable Drainage Retrofit
-River Enhancement
-Planning Policy
-Innovative Private Funding
-Telemetry Improvements
This officer decision notice is in relation to the Sustainable
Drainage Retrofit workstream. The project wishes to construct
sustainable drainage systems two Bristol schools (Briarwood Primary
School and Glenfrome SEN School) to improve surface water flooding
at these sites as well as improve amenity and biodiversity at the
schools. We have also secured additional funding (£97,500)
from the DofE Sustainable Drainage Systems in Schools Programme to
deliver the proposed interventions.

Content

To award a contract to Cotswold Estates and
Gardens Ltd to undertake Sustainable Drainage works at Briarwood
School and Glenfrome School as part of the Defra Innovation
Resilience Programme Fund agreed at Cabinet meeting 7th June
2022.

Alternative options considered

As this is part of the Resilient Frome Project
agreed at Cabinet on 7th June 2022 no alternative options were
considered.