{"id":211,"date":"2014-03-28T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/?post_type=question&#038;p=211"},"modified":"2021-02-09T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:22:44","slug":"district-city-and-borough-councils","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/question\/district-city-and-borough-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"District, City and Borough Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2014\/03\/District-Councils.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2014\/03\/District-Councils.jpg\" alt=\"Devon District council logos\" width=\"464\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2014\/03\/District-Councils.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2014\/03\/District-Councils-300x78.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The District Councils maintain their duties under the Land Drainage Act. They have specific powers for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implementing and maintaining flood defences on ordinary watercourses which are not the responsibility of the Internal Drainage Board.<\/li>\n<li>The preparation of development plans and making decisions on planning applications based on planning policy<\/li>\n<li>Managing flood risk on Ordinary Watercourses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For contact details and more information about your district\/borough council\u2019s responsibility, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/find-local-council\" rel=\"noopener\">find your local council on the Government website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faq-topic":[4],"faq-tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","faq-topic-who-is-responsible"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-topic?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"faq-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/floodriskmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}