Hull & East Riding Catchment Partnership

Catchment partnership vision

Our vision is for joined-up working that realises an improved water and wetland environment for the benefit of people and for wildlife. The Hull and East Riding CaBA Partnership area comprises a series of distinct, often discrete waterbodies, known locally as:

• Barmston Sea Cut
• Gypsey Race
• Hornsea Mere
• Market Weighton Canal and River Foulness
• River Hull
• South Holderness DrainsMost of these water bodies are separate from the main inland waterway network. Combined, they are crucial to the drainage of the Yorkshire Wolds and the East Riding and to the unique landscape character of the region. We will strive to work collaboratively and holistically across our varied catchment to deliver benefits for all who live in, work in and rely upon this landscape and its waterbodies, to protect it for future generations. The Chalk landscape of the region is of significance to most of our work themes and projects.

Related websites

Find out more about the activities and ambitions of this catchment partnership and how you can get involved to help improve the water environment in the catchment.

• Hull and East Riding Catchment Partnership (Catchment Based Approach) webpage
• Catchment Management Plans on CaBA website

Partnership success highlights 2016 to 2021

Just as our Catchment is varied so too are our successes:

• we began delivery of the urban focussed 'Dynamic Drains' programme, connecting local people to their public blue/greenspace, whilst carrying out targeted environmental improvements to the area and drawing up future plans for more work
• sustainable drainage systems were retrofitted in Hull, not only slowing the flow, but providing recreational space and improving water quality
• works on the SSSI headwater chalk streams have focussed on wet woodland creation, wetland habitat restoration and the re-creation of a meander channel on a straightened section of stream
• work with a farming business has seen the creation of an interceptor swale, taking and holding water that flows off the farm yard and buildings, before it reaches the Gypsey Race chalk stream
• on Watton Beck, an undesignated chalk stream, we have restored and improved habitats including improving wild brown trout spawning habitat
• we developed an invasive species strategy and delivery programme, with control focussing on the few key target plants, whose presence is known about, but are currently not widespread across the catchment
• at High Eske lake in the mid-reach of the R Hull, adjacent to Pulfin SSSI, we carried out restoration works aimed at improving fish habitats
• works were undertaken on dredging the Leven Canal SSSI to restore open water habitats, being encroached by aquatic macrophyte plants
• the Chalkshire landscape programme developed, with the creation of an overview report, highlighting the success of the partnership approach so far and providing future direction and opportunities.

Partnership development plans

We will continue to be an inclusive and representative partnership, encompassing a broad spectrum of representatives and views. Moving forward we aim to improve connections between terrestrial, marine and coastal waters. We pride ourselves on our partnerships flexibility and adaptability, we will strive to maintain this model, so we remain responsive to the changing world around us. We will aim to improve our use and collection of data, to provide a stronger evidence base for our projects.