~Moray Council~ is set to bid for funds for a defence scheme costing up to £100M for the Northeast Scotland town of Elgin.

The full council this week decided to revise the plans, and they no longer protect 41 properties downstream of Elgin or along the local Tyock Burn, instead they focus on cutting the risk to 1,000 properties in urban Elgin from the River Lossie.

Officers had advised that Moray’s scheme would have to compete with schemes such as Edinburgh projects for the Braid Burn and Water of Leith, with a cost-benefit ratio of nine and seven. But the council had ‘a legal and moral obligation’ to reduce risk from the Tyock Burn, because it was given a £215,000 developer contribution towards this in 1998. Increasing flow capacity under the 11 bridges over the burn was one option.

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