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A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
What to do if your land is affected by extreme weather, such as flooding, extreme heat or drought.
Fund will support farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their land due to flooding earlier this year with grants of between £500 and £25,000
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Advises how to take account of and address the risks associated with flooding and coastal change in the planning process.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
This project uses video footage to investigate the extent to which communities with a history of flooding are equipped to cope during and after flood events.
Flooding presents a number of risks to health. This guidance helps professionals and the public address those risks and clean up safely.
How to carry out a flood risk assessment so that you can complete your planning application
Guidance for the Environment Agency and lead local flood authorities to prepare FRMPs.
These documents give information about some of the local schemes and strategies to manage flood and coastal erosion risk in England.
Environment Agency officers will be talking to residents in Lydney and Cinderford about the steps they can take to prepare for flash flooding.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering some common issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK.
Victims of major disasters will be better supported as they rebuild their lives with a new and permanent Independent Public Advocate, the Lord Chancellor has announced today.
This Flood Action Week (20-26 November) the Environment Agency is urging people to prepare for increased weather extremes
Find out if there’s flooding in your area: flood warnings, flood alerts plus river, sea and groundwater levels.
Find out how you can use natural options to reduce flooding in your area, who to contact for advice, and if you can get funding.
Report a cause of flooding: who to contact for burst water mains, flooded sewers, public drains, roads, rivers
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