We work together with several other organisations:

 

The Environment Agency

We meet the West Thames Area Flood Risk Management team every couple of months - Ian Tomes (Area Flood Risk Manager), Peter Collins (Team Leader, Oxford area) and Keith Hutchence (Communications). They can be contacted by email:, their addresses being in the format firstname.lastname@environment-agency.gov.uk. Some of us have been meeting them since 2003.

Innes Jones is Area Manager for the West Thames area that stretches from Cirencester in the west to High Wycombe in the east and from Banbury in the north to Newbury in the south. The Thames West headquarters is in Wallingford but it also has offices and a depot on Osney Island in Oxford. This depot is the base for the Operations Delivery teams that carry out river maintenance and are on the front line when there is a risk of flooding.

The Thames regional headquarters is in Reading. The Regional Director is Howard Davidson. Peter Quarmby is Regional Flood and Coastal Risk Manager. 

Colin Hounslow leads the team responsible for locks, weirs and river navigation in Oxford.

 

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 be asked to make a short presentation. We are often in touch with individual members of the partnership.

 

Oxfordshire County Council

The County Council is the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA). As at late November 2011, due to illness there is as far as we know no councillor with specific flood responsibility at the moment.

Gordon Hunt is County Drainage Engineer and represents the County on the OAFP.

 

Oxford City Council

Steve Smith and Paul Kirkley are the engineers working on flooding issues; John Copley as Head of Environmental Development chairs the Partnership meetings. Tim Sadler as Executive Director is in charge of the wider flooding picture.

 

Vale of White Horse District Council

Peter Dela, Chief Engineer, is involved in the communities in the west Oxford floodplain which are in the Vale.

 

Thames Water

Mark Wickstead, Area Network Manager, is the Thames Water leader. Engineer Mark Taylor is involved with many of the current projects.