Work at Brackenhurst started on woody debris dams in June 2016 and bunds in November 2016. Pictures below Before (July) and after (22nd November 2016) drone shots of Brackenhurst’s #naturalfloodmanagement scheme, still under construction but holding back water as designed See January 2017 report Picture below One of the storage bunds doing its… Read more »
National Flood Forum Bulletin – November 2016
The Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee’s report, Future Flood Prevention, recently recommended a complete overhaul of how we tackle flooding. Amongst the recommendations was that we should take a more holistic approach to managing flood risk, including incorporating natural flood management (NFM) into the toolkit. NFM is about how we delay and… Read more »
Government commits £15m to natural flood management
Friday 25 November 2016 Natural management is ‘vital’ as well as other flood defences says environment secretary The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will spend £15m on natural flood management projects, the environment secretary has announced. On Thursday, Andrea Leadsom confirmed to parliament that, although flood defences such as concrete barriers are… Read more »
Environment Agency launch a Flood Awareness Campaign 2016
The Environment Agency is running a flood campaign at the start of November. We want you to act now, and be prepared for flooding 1 in 6 properties in England are at risk of flooding – that’s almost 5 million people . During the winter of 2015/2016 almost 20,000 homes and businesses flooded and the… Read more »
DEFRA Report on Future Flood Prevention
This has been released today 1st November 2016 – read here Look out in the media for comments
Radio 4 Today programme (11.10.16) on homeowners and household flood protection
An interesting article on household flood protection in flood risk areas Points covered – Property Level Protection or making homes more flood resilient – why might householders not consider this – what are the considerations? Who’s responsible – Government, insurers, loss adjusters, builders?
Southwell could gain £350,000 for flood work
A grant of £350,000 could be given to Southwell over the next three years towards work to reduce the risk of flooding. Nottinghamshire County Council has applied for the money from the Trent Regional Flood and Coastal Committee. It was approved in principle by the finance sub-committee and will now go to the main Trent… Read more »
UK government plans for more extreme rainfall
8th September 2016 The UK’s new flood defence plans anticipate significantly higher extreme rainfall, after new research was published as part of the government’s National Flood Resilience review. The government, which had been criticised for not taking full account of the impact of climate change in driving up flood risk, will now plan for 20-30%… Read more »
National Flood Forum Bulletin – September 2016
This summer has seen the publication of the Calderdale Floods Review, which was chaired by our CEO Paul Cobbing. In this edition Paul reports what he learned from the experience and what he believes the direction of travel should be for reducing flood risk. This includes what action communities can take for themselves to create… Read more »
Flood Expo 2016
A free exhibition and conference with leading speakers Excel London, October 12th and 13th Apply for your free ticket(s) here
