Motion drainage and flood-risk advice

Is local empowerment key to effective flood defence management?

Amid calls for landowners and the farming community to assume a greater role in management of low-risk flood defence works, a Country Land and Business Association (CLA) report has urged the government to provide more guidance for these groups.  Motion Director and flood risk expert, Richard Bettridge, explores the merits of a policy framework which
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Ecological measures aid eel migration

The survival of a critically endangered species is being helped by a programme of innovative engineering improvements managed by Motion.  The Lower Severn Internal Drainage Board (LSIDB) must meet the requirements of the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009, which came into force in January 2010.  The legislation grants implementation powers to the Environment Agency
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