Meet the Team

    • Dorset Council Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Team are the Client Project Managers for the project. They organise the project, liaise with key partners, prepare key documents, lead relevant meetings and manage the monitoring and reporting process. 

    • Consultancy Jacobs are the Consultant Project Managers, working closely with the Project Manager to deliver the technical studies required to produce the proposals which will go into the outline business case.   

    • Dorset Coast Forum (DCF) are the Stakeholder Engagement Lead. This involves managing the stakeholder and community engagement, running drop-in events, presentations, consultations, surveys, schoolwork and community group talks. DCF also act as a neutral body, facilitating meetings and workshops between partners, stakeholders and the community.  

    • The Environment Agency (EA) has a strategic overview of all sources of flooding and coastal erosion. It is also responsible for flood and coastal erosion risk management activities on main rivers and the coast.  Their work includes: 
      • developing long-term approaches to FCERM. This includes developing and applying the national flood and coast erosion risk management strategy.
      • allocation of national government funding to projects to manage flood and coastal erosion risks from all sources.