We work with

 

The Environment Agency

 

The EA's South East regional HQ is in Reading

• Regional Director - Howard Davidson
• Regional Flood and Coastal Risk Manager - Peter Quarmby

 

We are in the West Thames Area, which stretches from Cirencester to the edge of London, and from Banbury in the north to Guildford in the south. Area headquarters is in Wallingford. There are offices and a depot on Osney Island in Oxford.

• Area Manager - Julia Simpson

 

We meet the West Thames Area Flood Risk Management team

• Area Flood Risk Manager - Ian Tomes
• Operations Manager for Oxfordshire - Barry Russell
• Policy and Strategic Overview Team Leader, Oxon. - Chris Savage
• Operations Team Leader, Oxford area - Peter Collins
• Communications - Keith Hutchence

Their email addresses are in the form firstname.lastname@environment-agency.gov.uk.

 

The local Operations Delivery teams that carry out river maintenance, and are on the front line when there is a risk of flooding, are based at the Osney depot.

 

The team responsible for locks, weirs and river navigation in Oxford can be contacted via Waterways_West@environment-agency.gov.uk.

 

Oxfordshire County Council

The County Council is the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA).

• Deputy Leader of the County Council and Cabinet member with responsibility for flooding - Rodney Rose
• County Drainage Engineer - Gordon Hunt
• Oxfordshire Strategic Flooding Group Coordinator* - Chris Brown (* a partnership role making sure the relevant Risk Management Authorities (City, Districts, EA and TW) are working together and keeping each other informed.)

 

Oxford City Council

• Executive Director, in charge of the wider flooding picture - Tim Sadler
• Head of Environmental Development; Chair, OAFP - John Copley
• Engineers - Steve Smith and Paul Kirkley

 

Vale of White Horse District Council

• Chief Engineer - Peter Dela; involved in the communities in the west Oxford flood plain which are in the Vale.

 

Thames Water

• Area Network Manager - Mark Wickstead
• Engineer - Mark Taylor; involved with many of the current projects

 

Network Rail

• Graham Long represents NR on the OAFP

 

Oxford Area Flood Partnership (OAFP)

The City Council hosts this multi-agency working group focusing on flooding in the Oxford area. The group brings together the main agencies that have flooding responsibilities. They include the Environment Agency, Thames Water, Network Rail, the County Council, the City Council and Vale of White Horse District Council. While not a member of the partnership we can (and do) attend meetings and may be asked for our views. We attend the OAFP annual Public Meeting, where we may make a short presentation. We are often in touch with individual members of the partnership.