Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) Board members
The Board of Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) has 14 members. They represent the SRA’s partners:
- Somerset Council
- the Axe Brue and Parrett Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs)
- Environment Agency
- Natural England
- Wessex Regional Flood & Coastal Committee
- Wessex Water
Somerset Council has six members on the Board (reflecting the SRA’s composition before Somerset’s six local authorities were reorganised from a county council and five district councils to a unitary council).
The two Internal Drainage Boards each have two members.
The Environment Agency, Natural England and the Wessex Regional Flood & Coastal Committee (WRFCC) each have one.
Declarations of interest by individual Board members can be found by touching or clicking on their names in the list below, and scrolling down to declarations on the Somerset Council website.
The codes of conduct of the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Wessex Regional Flood & Coastal Committee do not require the publication of declarations of interest by their nominees.
If a Board member is unable to attend a meeting, a Substitute may attend instead.
Organisation: Member (Substitute)
Axe Brue Internal Drainage Board: Andrew Gilling, Wendy Welland (Trevor Whitcombe, David Tratt)
Environment Agency: Ian Withers (Piers Hooper)
Natural England: Claire Newill (Donna Gowler)
Parrett Internal Drainage Board: Tony Bradford – Vice-Chair, Anthony Betty (Rebecca Horsington, To Be Confirmed)
Somerset Council:
Cllr Mike Stanton – Chair (Cllr Richard Wilkins)
Cllr Mike Caswell (Cllr Tony Grimes)
Cllr Claire Sully (Cllr Liz Leyshon)
Cllr Nick O’Donnell (Cllr Dawn Johnson)
Cllr Steve Ashton (Cllr Oliver Patrick)
Cllr Ros Wyke (Cllr Harry Munt)
Wessex Regional Flood & Coastal Committee: Ian Collins (To Be Confirmed)
Wessex Water: Matt Wheeldon (Vicky Farwig)
Every year, SRA Board members sign up to a Memorandum of Understanding and Constitution.