Environment and Sustainability Committee

 

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

 

 

 

Meeting date:

Thursday, 5 July 2012

 

 

 

Meeting time:

09:00 - 14:30

 

 

 

This meeting can be viewed on Senedd TV at:
 http://www.senedd.tv/archiveplayer.jsf?v=en_700001_05_07_2012&t=0&l=en

http://www.senedd.tv/archiveplayer.jsf?v=en_400000_05_07_2012&t=0&l=en

 

 

Concise Minutes:

 

 

 

Assembly Members:

 

Mick Antoniw

Keith Davies

Russell George

Vaughan Gething

Julie James

William Powell

David Rees

 

 

 

 

 

Witnesses:

 

Steve Cook, Environment Agency Wales

Phil Dyke, The National Trust

Dr Susan Gubbay, Countryside Council for Wales

Greg Guthrie, Royal Haskoning

Graham Hillier, Environment Agency Wales

Emlyn Jones, Wales Coastal Monitoring Centre

Kevin Owen, Atkins

Louise Pennington, Wales Coastal Monitoring Centre

Marcus Philips, Halcrow

Dr Nicola Rimington, Countryside Council for Wales

Neville Rookes, Welsh Local Government Association

Kath Winnard, Atkins

 

 

 

 

 

Committee Staff:

 

Lara Date (Clerk)

Catherine Hunt (Deputy Clerk)

 

 

 

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1.  Introductions, apologies and substitutions

1.1 Apologies were received from Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Llyr Huws Gruffydd and Antoinette Sandbach.  There were no substitutions.

 

 

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2.  Inquiry into coastal protection - Oral evidence

2.1 The witnesses responded to questions from members of the Committee on coastal protection.

 

2.2 Dr Rimington agreed to provide copies of papers by Defra on the initiatives being developed using natural processes in defences.

 

2.3 Mr Dyke agreed to update the Committee on the availability of the Defra evaluation of the Pathfinder project.

 

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3.  Motion under Standing Order 17.42(vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

3.1 The Committee agreed to exclude the public from the meeting.

 

 

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4.  Inquiry into coastal protection - Consideration of evidence

4.1 The Committee considered the evidence it had received on coastal protection.

 

 

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Transcript

View the meeting transcript.

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