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Flood and coastal erosion risk management: current schemes and strategies

These documents give information about some of the local schemes and strategies to manage flood and coastal erosion risk in England.

The Environment Agency considers a wide range of different measures to address the flood and coastal erosion risk to communities and property. The measures needed for each location are considered on a case by case basis. Some of the measures that may be considered include:

  • building flood and coastal defences
  • flood storage reservoirs
  • land management
  • portable defences

The strategies and schemes are grouped by the geographic areas the Environment Agency operates from.

View the map showing the geographic areas of the Environment Agency’s operations.

North East (map area 1)

Cumbria and Lancashire (map area 2)

Yorkshire (map area 3)

Please note the document ‘Humber flood risk management strategy’ covers areas in both the Yorkshire Area (map area 3) and the Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire Area (map area 5).

Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire (map area 4)

Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire (map area 5)

Please note the document ‘Humber flood risk management strategy’ covers areas in both the Yorkshire Area (map area 3) and the Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire Area (map area 5).

East Midlands (map area 6)

West Midlands (map area 7)

Wessex (map area 8)

Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (map area 9)

Thames (map area 11)

Hertfordshire and North London (map area 12)

Kent, South London and East Sussex (map area 13)

The document ‘Thames estuary 2100 (TE2100)’ covers areas in both the East Anglia Area (map area 10) and the Kent, South London and East Sussex Area (map area 13).

Solent and South Downs (map area 14)

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2014
Last updated 5 July 2018 + show all updates
  1. Added Elmer flood scheme.

  2. Added Romsey flood scheme to collection.

  3. Totnes: reducing the risk of flooding page added to collection.

  4. Arun to Pagham flood risk strategy added 7 October 2015

  5. Slough scheme added to West Thames.

  6. Updated July 2015 - Added A120 (Little Hadham) Bypass.

  7. Addition of paper for 'A120 (Little Hadham) Bypass and Flood Alleviation Scheme' to Hertfordshire and North London.

  8. New scheme added.

  9. Added Monktonmead scheme to Solent and South Downs area.

  10. New scheme added.

  11. Poole flood and coastal risk management strategy added to Wessex group.

  12. Medway and Swale Estuary strategy added.

  13. A map was added and the collection re-ordered to aid navigation.

  14. Added new scheme: Broomhill Sands coastal defence scheme.

  15. Lewisham and Catford flood alleviation scheme added. Upper Mole flood alleviation scheme added.

  16. Added link to Humber strategy.

  17. First published.