Minister with responsibility for floods, Rebecca Pow has today (Wednesday, April 5) announced the first communities to receive funding under the £100 million Frequently Flooded Allowance.
These first 53 communities to benefit from the fund, which was announced in July 2022, will receive £26 million in total.
The fund targets communities where 10 or more properties have flooded twice or more in the last 10 years.
“This much-needed funding will go a long way to support those whose homes and livelihoods are repeatedly threatened by flooding and forms a key part of our record £5.2 billion investment by 2027 to protect communities in England better,” Minister Pow said.
“We know only too well the devastating impact that flooding can have on communities and businesses, as we face more extreme weather brought about by climate change.
“I am determined that we do whatever we can to prevent flooding that affects so many towns and villages across the country. ”
Communities to receive Frequently Flooded Allowance
Among the first communities to receive funding are those in Worcestershire, which faced severe flooding with Storm Christoph in 2021; Cumbria, whose residents suffered major flooding from Storm Desmond in 2015 and Storm Ciara in 2020; and properties in the Calder Valley, which was devastated by flooding when it was hit by both Storm Ciara and Storm Eva in 2015.
A full list of projects to receive funding is below:
Alconbury Flood Alleviation Scheme Stage 2 Greyfriars Community Flood Risk Management Scheme River Teme, Tenbury Wells Community Flood Alleviation Scheme Brighton & Hove City Council Surface Water Management Feasibility Study Hebden Bridge Flood Alleviation Scheme Rolleston Brook Flood Alleviation Scheme, Staffordshire Bingley and Shipley Property Flood Resilience Study Ilminster Flood Alleviation Study Ruislip Park Wood and Pinn Meadows Bledington Flood Alleviation Scheme Intake, Flood Risk Management Scheme Severn Stoke Flood Alleviation Scheme, River Severn Brighouse Flood Alleviation Scheme Irwell Vale to Chatterton Skipton Road Burrow Beck Conveyance Improvements Langstone (Havant) Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Scheme Small Communities Property Flood Resilience Scoping Carlisle Appraisal Package Appleby Town Centre Larkspur Close Integrated Urban Drainage Scheme South Cave Flood Alleviation Scheme Chard Flood Alleviation Scheme Lavendon Flood Alleviation Scheme Stony Stratford Flood Alleviation Study Cocker Beck, Lowdham, Flood Alleviation Scheme Leintwardine and Walford Property Flood Resilience Stubbing Holme Road Dufton Close Feasibility Study Lindale Road Grange over Sands Tenbury Wells Integrated Flood Solution Earby Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase 3, Earby Beck Lipson Vale Phase 1, Trefusis Park (South West Water Integrated Urban Drainage Modelling) Toronto Close Flood Alleviation Scheme Eardisland Flood Alleviation Scheme Little Bollington River Bollin Property Flood Resilience Undefended Properties in the Ironbridge Gorge – Individual Property Protection Erringden Hillside Market Weighton Flood Alleviation Scheme Upper River Piddle Catchment Flood Risk Management Scheme Falmouth Integrated Urban Drainage Management Natural Flood Management Upstream of Cirencester Walsden Flood Alleviation Scheme First Avenue Flood Alleviation Scheme Northumbria Integrated Drainage Partnership – Redcar (Yearby, Kirkleatham & Low Farm Drive, and West Dyke Road) Flood Alleviation Scheme West End Road, St Helens Flood Risk Reduction Schemes 2 – Copley Village Flood Alleviation Scheme Northumbria Integrated Drainage Partnership – Saltburn (Princes Road & Marske Road) Flood Alleviation Scheme Whitley Brook Flood Reduction Scheme Flood Risk Reduction Schemes 2 – Cottonstones near Lumb, Calderdale North Road, Holme Village Flood Alleviation Williton Flood Alleviation Study Flood Risk Reduction Schemes 2 – Railes Close between Luddenden and Midgley Pallion Flood Alleviation Scheme
Eleven of the above projects are new investigative studies for potential schemes that will provide hope to communities without a project on the current programme.
Additional projects will be identified in the remaining years of the government’s flood capital investment programme which runs from 2021 to 2027.
