Adaptation and Resilience - reducing the impact of flooding and coastal erosion and adapting to the effects of climate change
Latest News
- 30 July 2008 -Defra launches consultation on options to increase the use of property-level measures to mitigate the impacts of flooding for homes that have a high chance of flooding every year. The consultation builds on the grants pilot scheme that Defra has recently completed.
- Responses to the consultation should be sent via email to floodresilience@defra.gsi.gov.uk and should be received by Friday 31 October 2008.
- to support this consultation, we will be arranging some regional consultation events in the autumn. Further details will be available in September.
- 4 July 2008 - £500,000 grant made available to contribute towards one or two multi-objective flood management demonstration projects. Any organisation or partnership with the capacity to deliver such a project is invited to submit an outline proposal to Defra by 29th August 2008. See also associated press release.
- 20 June 2008 - Hilary Benn sets out details of Government plans to assist individuals and businesses to better protect their property from the impacts of flooding
- 12 June 2008 - Planning Policy Statement 25 Practice Guide published on how to implement development and flood risk policies by the land use planning system
Government’s approach
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The Government is working to assist communities adapt to climate change |
The Government is developing an adaptation toolkit to assist communities in adapting to change where constructing defences is not the most appropriate means of managing flood and coastal erosion risk. Up to £28 million of Defra's Comprehensive Spending Review settlement for 2008 – 2011 has been made available to support the adaptation toolkit. The toolkit will put adapting to climate change at its core, recognising that we cannot protect against all flood events or coastal erosion using traditional engineering approaches. It will focus on ways that we can reduce the damages caused by floods and coastal erosion, through careful land use planning and building design, better information and community engagement to drive sensible risk management by individuals or organisations, and measures to help communities adapt to increasing risk.
Some parts of the toolkit are already in place - for example strengthened planning policy for flood risk areas. Others are currently in development:
- Adapting to coastal change – supporting communities that may lose infrastructure and properties due to coastal erosion
- Property-level flood protection and resilience – promoting solutions for both existing and new-build properties at significant risk of flooding
- Land management – considering how we can work with natural processes to reduce flood risk and deliver other benefits, such as biodiversity.
Links
Defra - adaptation to climate change – action in the UK
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modified: 14 August 2008
Page published: 23 July 2008