Timeline
Flood and response
- Emergency response
- Emergency centres
- Temporary homing
- Drop in
- Insurance support
- Families re-homed before Christmas
Drop-ins, clearing and cleaning
- Move to weekly drop-ins
- Welfare checks
- Council houses stripped out
- Continuous cleaning of outdoor area
- Scottish Flood Forum supporting private insurance enquiries
Commissioning and engagement
- Housing Options Appraisal commissioned
- Engagement with displaced residents
- Humidifiers placed in all empty council housing
- Specialist consultants commissioned to carry out a technical assessment of the flood defences
Consulting on housing options
Consultants begin engagement with tenants as part of housing options report
Work continues
- Work progresses to strip out all houses
- Work begins on Bridge of Dun
- JBA Consulting commissioned to carry out studies on flood defence
Repairs and consultation
Work progresses on Bridge of Dun:
- all of the unstable parts have been carefully taken down, cleaned and sorted ready to be rebuilt
- we’ve managed to preserve the south face of the bridge and this is currently safely propped
The cutwater repair to Brechin bridge has been carried out.
Housing consultation concluded, draft reports being prepared.
Repairs, vegetation management and drop-in
- All bridge repairs complete
- Vegetation management of the gravel bar on the north side of the River South Esk was completed
- Community Resilience Drop-in with Angus Council and Partners (SSEN/Scottish Flood Forum)
Reports published
- Options Appraisal and Flood Defence Technical Reports published
- Public information sessions held
Meetings and engagement
- Decisions made at Angus Council Committee
- Community Resilience meetings held
- Community information meeting held
- Housing Engagement begins – letters sent to all households