Here’s what we’ve been up to this week…

  • This week, Hannah published three high-profile evidence reports - two on the biodiversity of the Wye, one on the decline of Maerl (a coral-like algae, important for sea life) in the Pembrokeshire Special Area of Conservation and worked with Sam on publishing a page for estimating design flows and rainfall for flood risk modelling
  • Sophie worked with Caroline in Flood to publish a new, accessible Business Flood Plan for business across Wales to use in case of flooding emergencies
  • Jane and Mary have reviewed and updated content about the recently introduced new system to pay for parking at three of our most popular visitor sites. These places are at their busiest over the summer holidays with a lot of first-time visitors so we wanted to make sure that the content is as clear as possible for them to help plan a visit
  • Phil, Lucinda and Kim spent the week in Port Talbot on a Business Analysis bootcamp, organised by the Service Transformation team
  • Sam and Jane have been finalising the Forest Management Plan web content and application form ready for the launch on 15 July. Jane had a highly productive session with a translator, working side by side to review the content and make live edits where needed. Along the way, she got some insight into the many different ways of saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in Welsh! Jane also delivered another demo, this time to colleagues in the Forestry Operations team, to help build awareness and understanding of the new process ahead of the launch
  • Shaun met with the flood risk team to continue work on the ‘Main river’ and ‘Riverside owner’s responsibilities’ web-pages. Shaun also met with the industry policy and regulation teams to further plan how best to provide ‘Best Available Techniques’ guidance for industrial Environmental Permits. The ‘Low risk impoundment’ web-pages and associated water abstraction guidance went off to translation after being finalised with the team.