How the joint thames strategy works
Welcome to Joint Thames Strategies!
Five individual Thames Strategies serve the needs of defined sections of the Thames based on their unique character. Common themes and national policies are managed and supported collectively through the Joint Thames Strategy. Working collaboratively allows us to share knowledge, best practice and resource, empowering the Thames as a whole, while each Thames Strategy will guide its communities towards meaningful benefits, locally.
The Joint Thames Strategy is comprehensive guidance for Riverside Strategy development that will lead to climate resilience and offer access to wider benefits that set the scene for economic growth in a changing environment.
- Improving flood risk management along the Thames - Embedding the Thames Estuary 2100 plan. Mapping defences and vulnerabilities across the entire stretch of the Thames to better understand needs locally while we work towards effective flood resilience.
- Delivering wider benefits - Enhanced environmental quality, recreational opportunities, enhanced public open spaces, heritage, culture, functional floodplains and economic growth.
- Promoting a collaborative approach - working with and connecting local authorities, stakeholders, and communities, sharing resource and knowledge.
Our Objectives
Thames Estuary 2100
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
Embed the Environment Agency’s Thames Estuary 2100 Plan requirements for Riverside Strategies
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
- Chelsea to Tower Hamlets
- Gravesham to the tidal limit of the Thames
Update the three existing Joint Thames Strategies
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
Update the three existing Joint Thames Strategies
- Weybridge to Kew
- Kew to Chelsea
- Tower Hamlets to Gravesham
Joint Thames Strategy
Create two new Thames Strategies to fill the gaps
Update the three existing Joint Thames Strategies
Create an overarching Joint Thames Strategy from Surrey to sea
