Our Staff
Co-ordinator: Jason Debney
Project Manager: Rebecca Law
Strategic Project Officer: Laura Nee
With our patron Sir David Attenborough
Executive Review Board
Local Councillors, landowners, businesses and the community are represented on the Group.
Chair- Cllr Gabriella Giles
Officer Steering Committee
Senior Local Authority officers and representatives from the National Agencies. Officers work in partnership with the Co-ordinator to develop projects and strategic policy.
Community Advisory Group
The CAG provides a bottom up, community led approach to environmental management that has underpinned the TLS since inception.
Chair- Richard Mobbs
The Father Thames Trust is a registered charity that raises funds and supplies grants to support the Thames Landscape Strategy and its projects.
Catchment Based Approach
Thames Landscape Strategy works using a ‘catchment-based’ approach aims to deliver and raise awareness of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and what this means for our rivers, estuaries and coastal waters.
The TLS region is in two different catchments:
Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100)
The Thames Estuary 2100 project (TE2100), led by the Environment Agency, was formed in 2002 to develop a comprehensive action plan to manage flood risk for the Tidal Thames This was the first government action plan to explicitly deal with climate change.
The River Thames Scheme
The River Thames scheme will work to reduce the consequences of a flood event between Datchet and Teddington. In the TLS region, it is planned to modify weirs to allow water to move through quicker during flood events and to increase the resilience of properties and landscapes located in the floodplain.