06 Feb 2025
The Environment has published new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion. This includes future scenarios accounting for climate change. Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff It includes new National Flood Risk Assessment (NaFRA) ‘Risk of flooding from rivers and sea’ and ‘Risk of flooding from surface water’ data, as well as new National Coastal […]
16 Jan 2025
Useful article in New Civil Engineer Water industry experts have expressed dismay at the news that mandatory sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for developments over 100m2 is not being introduced, despite the Department for Food, Rural Affairs and Environment’s (Defra’s) promise. Despite the government saying that Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 would […]
08 Jan 2025
The Environment Agency is continuing to urge people to remain vigilant following the recent flooding, as flood warnings are still in place and a mixture of already saturated catchments and melting snow could risk some further disruption in parts of England on Thursday and Friday. Ongoing minor river flooding impacts are expected along the River […]
08 Jan 2025
A reminder that The Environmental Audit Committee is undertaking an inquiry on flood resilience in England, focusing on how flood resilience can be strengthened in response to increasing risks from extreme weather, rising sea levels, and evolving flood hazards. Photo credit: Natural England Read the call for evidence for more information about this inquiry, and […]
19 Dec 2024
The Environment Agency has published an update of the National assessment of flood and coastal erosion risk in England. Photo credit: Environment Agency This assessment provides a picture of current and future flood and coastal erosion risk across England. It suggests that the total number of properties in areas at risk of flooding from […]
17 Dec 2024
The Environment Agency has published new data showing 6.3 million properties across England are based in areas at risk of flooding from one or a combination of rivers, the sea and surface water. Using the best available data from both the Environment Agency and local authorities, the new National Assessment of Flood Risk (NaFRA), provides a […]
11 Dec 2024
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has launched a new inquiry to examine flood resilience in England as homes and businesses recover from more flooding misery in recent weeks. At the end of November, Storm Bert flooded in excess of 100 homes and over the weekend, Storm Darragh triggered over 200 flood warnings […]
27 Nov 2024
As the clean-up continues in areas hit by Storm Bert, forecasters, environment officials and politicians have been strongly criticised over the warnings issued before the storm and the fitness of flood defences to cope with increasingly common extreme weather (The Guardian). Photo credit: Ray Bilcliff The Environment Agency said that lessons learned from […]
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