Emergency planning

Emergencies

Flooding and severe weather

It is Tandridge District Council's role to support the emergency services if there is a major incident in the district.

Major incidents can be natural disasters such as flooding, storms and pollution incidents or other events such as major traffic accidents, unexploded bombs, large fires, suspect packages or acts of terrorism.In these circumstances, Tandridge may be called upon by the emergency services to assist in responding to the incident or helping the community recover after the incident.

How emergency planning works in Surrey
Emergency Planning in Surrey is coordinated by Surrey's Local Resilience Forum (SLRF). In accordance with the Civil Contingencies Act, Tandridge continues to work closely with our partner agencies, through the Local Resilience Forum.

This forum is a multi-agency group committed to making Surrey a safer place by ensuring that all partners can respond effectively when incidents do occur. The purpose of the Local Resilience Forum is to ensure effective delivery of those duties under the Civil Contingencies Act that need to be developed in a multi-agency environment.

The SLRF consists of chief officers from the key organisations that will respond to a disaster in Surrey:

Chief Constable of Surrey Police
Chief Executive of Surrey County Council
County Fire Officer
Chief Executive of the South East Coast Ambulance Service
Chief Executive Surrey's Primary Care Trust
Representative of Surrey's Borough and District Chief Executives
Commander of Deepcut Garrison

The Surrey Community Risk Register

The Community Risk Register is the first step in the emergency planning process. It had been created to provide public information about the hazards that exist within Surrey. The register outlines hazards and the control measures that are in place to mitigate their impact. Tandridge's plans and preparedness is based on the register. The Surrey CRR can be viewed on: www.surreyalert.info (This link will open in a new window). The register has been published in response to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and further information can be accessed through the UK Resilience website on: UK Resilience (This link will open in a new window).

The hazards have been outlined in generic format as this is the basis of response planning within the District and County, and follows nationally agreed best practice. The generic hazards have been assessed for the likelihood of the event happening and the potential impact that may have within the District which is used to create the risk rating for the hazard. The likelihood and impact values were agreed through the multi-agency Risk Assessment Working Group on behalf of the SLRF.

The inclusion of these hazards and scenarios in the register does not mean that the SLRF believes the risk will materialise or that it would be of that scale. They are based upon worst case scenario assumptions and will be used to assist the District and SLRF in establishing sufficient control measures to mitigate those hazards. This Community Risk Register will be regularly reviewed and updated as required.

Tandridge has reviewed the Risk Register and is happy to adopt the Surrey Community Risk Register as the Risk Register for Tandridge.

Please click on the following link to view the SLRF Community Risk Register.

Emergency planning in Tandridge
Tandridge is the same as any other council and has been given statutory responsibilities to respond to major incidents. The main roles are:

Support the emergency services.
Assistance to people in distress.
Coordinate the activities of their various departments and other agencies.
Release information that has been agreed by the Police to the media and give advice to the public.
Keep local council services going in a normal a way as possible.
Restore stability with the aim of restoring normality.

Emergency plans
Tandridge has a set of plans to help it respond to any incident, such as:

Flooding
Major accidents
Fire/explosions/bombing
Civil Riot
Foot & Mouth
Chemical or nuclear attack
Environmental sabotage
Terrorism

In response to these events, the Council could be asked to provide a variety of services as well as general advice to the public.

More information

To respond to any incident the Council has created to response plans. The first is the Tandridge District Council Emergency Plan, which contains details of the generic arrangements in place for responding to an emergency. The plan contains details of the Control Room along with the various roles and responsibilities of the officers that may be asked to respond. The plan also contains contact details for all key staff.

The second plan is the Emergency Assistance Centre Plan, which contains all the necessary information to set up and run any type of emergency centre that may be requested by the emergency services.

For further information please contact Committees on 01883 732974 or e-mail committees@tandridge.gov.uk

Or write to us at:
Tandridge District Council
8 Station Road East
Oxted RH8 0BT

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