FoI: Woodland Path

The RDRA Chairman requested a Freedom of Information request on the following questions:

1. When (on what date) was the decision to close the Woodland path taken?
   9th February 2024

2. Who was responsible for taking that decision?
   Associate Director for Environment

3. When was the Environmental Agency Asked/Commissioned to do the Hydrological Survey?
   The EA has not been asked nor commissioned by TRDC to do a Hydrological Survey. Under their responsibilities for water management the EA have been in the process of updating their Flood Modelling for the Upper River Colne, which will inform a Hydrological Study of the Aquadrome commissioned to JBA by TRDC in 21 March 2024

4. When was the Environmental Agency’s Hydrological Survey Report received by the Three Rivers District Council?
   The Council initially received the EA updated Upper River Colne Flood Model ( it is assumed that this is what the enquirer is referring to) on 2^nd October 2025 with a further updated version received by the council on 8^th October 2025

5. When is the Environmental Agency’s Hydrological Survey Report being published and is in the public domain and available for public scrutiny?
   That is a question that the requester should pose to the EA. If this question in fact refers to the council commissioned Hydrological Study it is expected that, as reported to the councils Climate Change and Leisure Committee on 15^th October, that this will be complete by the end of the calendar year and published in early 2026.

6. When is the TRDC scheduling to implement the Environmental Agency’s Hydrological Survey Report Recommendations?
   EA Upper Colne Flood Model does not contain recommendations, it is a model.
   Further details on this matter have been published in the report to TRDC Climate Change and Leisure Committee of 15^th October and can be found on the council website: Agenda for Climate Change and Leisure Committee on Wednesday, 15th October, 2025, 7.30 pm – Modern Council item 11a.