Tender: Strood Flood Defence Strategy – Investment Pathway for Coastal Flood Risk Management to 2118

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Supplier is sought to produce a forward-looking flood defence strategy for Strood that defines the preferred investment pathway for effective and sustainable coastal flood risk management. The strategy must build on the Hold the Line policy through to 2118 and provide an evidence-based approach to safeguarding Strood’s communities and supporting future regeneration by delivering resilience against tidal flooding up to the 1 in 200-year return period event. The work should draw on existing analyses including the 2016 Strood Flood Defence Strategy, the 2019 Medway Estuary and Swale Strategy and the 2021 sub-model update and appraisal, and should utilise the 2024 North Kent Coast Model (and Strood sub-model), bathymetric and LiDAR datasets, property and development datasets such as NRD, and asset information from the Environment Agency and LLFAs to ensure a comprehensive, data-driven appraisal that underpins recommendations.