Can the Environment Agency safeguard our environment?

The Environment Agency is involved in several developments in the Sid Valley:
Futures Forum: Beach Management Plan: meeting 13th September > report
Futures Forum: Knowle relocation project: and flooding
Futures Forum: Sidford business park > Fords planning application >>> 16/0669/MOUT >>> Environment Agency appears to contradict its own guidance on flooding and climate change >>> EA to reply to SVA

It is particularly concerned with flooding issues:
Futures Forum: New developments and flood regulations in East Devon
Futures Forum: Flooding and East Devon... ... and riding roughshod over the concerns of locals

But also other areas of the environment:
Futures Forum: Monterey Pines in the Sid Valley

Radio 4's Costing the Earth looks at the health of the quango:

Guardians of the Environment?

Costing the Earth

Tom Heap asks if the Environment Agency is fit for purpose. After seven years of deep cuts to its staffing and budgets, Tom Heap asks the EA's Chair, Emma Howard Boyd, to respond to her critics. We hear fromthose who are concerned that the EA is doing too little, too late when it comes to protecting the quality of our rivers and the environment, and that it can appear toothless when dealing with the rising tide of waste crime.

Senior Conservative politician, John Gummer, now Lord Deben, created the Environment Agency in 1995. He tells us that the organisation has become too cosy to government and has lost its independence. Emma Howard Boyd responds to these and other concerns, such as the EA's shedding of one third of its frontline enforcement officers over the last five years. Can it still safeguard our environment?

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Guardians of the Environment?
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