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Further info / links

The following are some useful sources of further information (see also the Who to contact page):

• Environment Agency Floodline Web site provides information for What to do in a flood.
• The Health Protection Agency offers advice and information for residents whose homes have been flooded.
• Good Repair Guide 11 Repairing flood damage parts 1-4 can be bought online from the BRE Bookshop. This provides more detailed advice on dealing with repairs to damage to buildings caused by floods
• The Flood Hazards Research Centre at Middlesex University conducted research into the health effects (2000), with reference to floods at Kidlington and Banbury in 1998
• The National Flood Forum is a non-profit making organisation which is dedicated to reducing the impact of flooding on people throughout the UK and linking together communities at risk from flooding.
• FLOWS (Floodplain Land use Optimising Workable Sustainability) Project covers five countries, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.The FLOWS Project’s aim is to support communities to adapt to living with flood risk in a changing climate by providing project examples that complement and build on existing initiatives in spatial planning and flood water management. The aim is to improve the sustainability of development in areas at risk of flooding.

Further information on reducing the impacts of flooding 

CIRIA's research study, Reducing the impacts of flooding - extemporary measures (2001), identifies the measures that may be taken to provide some protection against flooding using readily available material. The report is based on the findings of literature search of flood, flood damage and property publications, principally using databases and websites. The study also included a survey of occupants of flooded properties to develop additional information on the effects of flooding and identify any extemporary measures taken and their success.  This report is available from the following pdf Reducing the impacts of flooding - extemporary measures.

Flood Risk Assessment Guidance for New Development

Flood risk assessment guidance for new development [Defra/Environment Agency project number FD2320] has developed a science and risk-based framework designed to enable a consistent approach to the assessment and management of flood risk for new development across England and Wales. The framework (including guidance and tools) has been achieved by integrating and simplifying existing guidance (including CIRIA's Development and flood risk — guidance for the construction industry (C624)) and the latest findings from an extensive range of research projects.

Click here to access the Flood Risk Assessment Guidance for New Development website

25 July 2007

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