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Managing flood and coastal 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.
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published: 21 April 2009