Presentations from workshop examining the recent experience of flooding in the social housing sector. Note about sources: Graeme Sherriff’s presentation draws on documents from the UK Climate Impacts Programme and RenewCanada, and on Carter et al (2015) ‘Climate Change and the City: Building capacity for urban adaptation’ (Progress in Planning volume 95).

1. Greater Manchester Flooding:
The Social Housing Perspective
Monday 29th February 2016

2. Professor Philip Brown
Making Research Count
at The University of Salford

3. • National initiative across ten universities in England
• A knowledge broker
• Bringing together academics, practitioners, carers and users to
facilitate the dissemination of social care research and theory
• The University of Salford is the regional hub for MRC in Greater
Manchester
• Support the learning needs of a range of organisations in the sub-
region
Making Research Count (MRC)

5. Dr Neil Entwistle, University of Salford
Rivers and floodplains: a drone’s
eye view

6. Neil Entwistle
Greater
Manchester
Flooding
MediaCityUK

9. Cause?

10. • River Croal,
• Bolton
Cause: Natural Processes?

11. Extreme weather?

12. El Niño

13. Flood in Salford, 1946

14. Flood in Salford, 1946

15. Named storms of winter 2015/16
Name Date named Date of impact on UK and/or Ireland
Abigail 10 November 2015 12 - 13 November 2015
Barney 16 November 2015 17 - 18 November 2015
Clodagh (Clo-da) 28 November 2015 29 November 2015
Desmond 4 December 2015 5 - 6 December 2015
Eva 22 December 2015 24 December 2015
Storm Frank 28 December 2015 29 - 30 December 2015
Gertrude 28 January 2016 29 January 2016
Henry 30 January 2016 1 - 2 February 2016
Imogen 7 February 2016 8 February 2016

16. Named storms of winter 2015/16
Name Date named Date of impact on UK and/or Ireland
Abigail 10 November 2015 12 - 13 November 2015
Barney 16 November 2015 17 - 18 November 2015
Clodagh (Clo-da) 28 November 2015 29 November 2015
Desmond 4 December 2015 5 - 6 December 2015
Eva 22 December 2015 24 December 2015
Storm Frank 28 December 2015 29 - 30 December 2015
Gertrude 28 January 2016 29 January 2016
Henry 30 January 2016 1 - 2 February 2016
Imogen 7 February 2016 8 February 2016
“What we are experiencing is typical of an early winter El Niño effect,”
head of Met Office long-range forecasting.

17. Christmas/Boxing Day 2015
Hourly rainfall

18. Prestolee (Bolton)

19. Prestolee (Bolton)

20. Prestolee (Bolton)

21. Prestolee

22. Irwell Flood

23. Flood risk

24. Environment Agency
Flood Alerts

25. Flood risk

26. Flood Alerts

27. Adequate warnings?
Littleborough, Greater Manchester.

28. Could it have been worse?
Summerseat, River Irwell

29. Could it have been worse?
Radcliffe, River Irwell

30. Could it have been worse?
Manchester, River Irwell

32. Aftermath

33. Research: Peel Park, Salford
Levee
Flood level

34. 1866
1870

35. Historic Irwell River Floods
Date m3s-1
21-09-68 195
23-09-68 269
01-10-68 214
27-10-80 342
21-03-81 190
09-12-83 173
30-12-86 181
21-12-91 263
05-01-92 171
01-12-92 188
31-01-95 257
30-10-00 200
04-02-04 188
21-01-08 236
22-06-12 274
25-09-12 194
“Very responsive regime.
Many abstractions and storage reservoirs”.

36. Drinking Water Lakes

37. Planning
Whalley, River Calder

38. Mitigation

39. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-
35353869

40. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-
35353869

42. Contact: n.s.entwistle@salford.ac.uk
Thank you

43. Dr Graeme Sherriff, University of Salford
Climate adaptability

44. Climate Change
Adaptation
Graeme Sherriff
Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit (SHUSU)

45. What is climate change?

49. What does it mean for the UK?

52. • Increases in frequency of flooding,
including threats to home and critical
infrastructure
• Summer overheating and heat
related deaths
• Reductions in water availability in the
summer

54. Flooding as a socio-spatial vulnerability
issue
Sensitivity Enhanced Exposure:
- (in)ability to prepare
- (in)ability to respond
- (in)ability to recover
- www.climatejust.org.uk/map

55. How can we respond to climate change?

58. What is the policy in Greater Manchester?

59. GM strategic goals on climate change
• We will make a rapid transition to a low carbon economy.
• Our collective carbon emissions will have been reduced by 30%
to 50%.
• We will be prepared for and actively adapting to a rapidly
changing climate.
• ‘Carbon literacy’ will have become embedded into the culture of
our organisations, lifestyles and behaviours.
The Greater Manchester Climate Strategy – 2011-2020

60. GM strategic goals on climate change
• We will make a rapid transition to a low carbon economy.
• Our collective carbon emissions will have been reduced by 30%
to 50%.
• We will be prepared for and actively adapting to a rapidly
changing climate.
• ‘Carbon literacy’ will have become embedded into the culture of
our organisations, lifestyles and behaviours.
The Greater Manchester Climate Strategy – 2011-2020

61. We will be prepared for and actively
adapting to a rapidly changing climate
• the extent, quality and productivity of green spaces and tree cover
• the number and quality of resilience plans and adaptation strategies
The Greater Manchester Climate Strategy – 2011-2020

62. By Sector
• Buildings: embedded in all retrofit and regeneration
• Transport: transport infrastructure develops resilience to
prepare for an increase in extreme weather events.
• Green and blue spaces: well co-ordinated green and blue
infrastructure network that delivers cooling, shelter, resilience
and flood management, increasing urban tree cover
• Integration of green infrastructure into the strategies and work
programmes of all organisations working in the growth,
sustainability and wellbeing sectors including dissemination of
research into costs, levies, standards and benefits.
• Cultural value attached to our green and blue infrastructure

63. Is social housing prepared?

64. Climate preparedness in social housing
• Despite excellent climate awareness, the approach of housing
associations remains a “wait and see” tactic.
• Alleviating fuel poverty and reducing winter fuel bills remains a
greater priority.
• Climate related events not considered frequent or severe enough,
and lack of confidence in ability of scientific community to predict
extreme events.
• Overcoming the barrier between strategic climate adaptation
objectives is challenging.
(Masters research University of Leeds – Lucy Davidson, July 2015)

65. Dr Luke Blazejewski, Film maker
The Hundred Year Flood: A Short Film

66. Lee Sugden, Salix Homes
Experience of Social Housing sector
during recent floods

67. Refreshments
and Networking Break

68. • Reflecting on experience of supporting communities
during flooding.
• What steps could be put in place to reduce the risk of
future events?
• What support do housing organisations need in the
future?
• What are the key messages for those involved in
policy formulation?
World Café discussion

69. Thoughts and reflections from groups
and closing remarks