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Dedicated funding for repeatedly flooded communities
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has announced dedicated funding for repeatedly flooded communities.
A new ring-fenced £100 million allowance has been announced which is designed to protect properties.
The Frequently Flooded Allowance aims to improve access to public funding for these areas. These communities are often smaller areas which need more complex flood schemes, so community-wide defences are not always viable.
The funding will be available for eligible communities - meaning 10 or more properties have flooded twice or more in the last 10 years.
The government press release said it was expected around 80 schemes will receive funding over the next four years, either accelerating existing projects or delivering new ones.
The allowance is part of the Government's current programme of flood and coastal defence announced in 2020.
Environment Secretary George Eustice said: "Flooding is a miserable experience, especially for people who suffer its impacts time and again, and I feel we have a moral imperative to help.
"Our new Frequently Flooded Allowance will boost schemes in areas which are hit repeatedly and reduce the risk of flooding in the future.
"This new allowance will provide extra support for these areas and forms part of our major £5.2 billion effort to build around 2,000 flood schemes by 2027 and level-up defences across the country."
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, said: "The impacts of climate change are becoming all too familiar both at home and around the world.
"While we cannot prevent all flooding, this allowance will help better protect homes and businesses at risk from repeated incidents.
"The Environment Agency has a successful track record in delivering flood and coastal defence schemes across the country, having better protected more than 314,000 homes from flooding since 2015."
More information on flood and coastal defences projects can be accessed through the local Environment Agency Partnership.
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