The Flood Hub

💬 We want to hear from you! 💬 🤔Have you used The Flood Hub? Let us know which sections you find useful and what could be improved! ✅Your input helps shape The Flood Hub into an even better resource for communities, householders, and businesses across the North West. Pass your thoughts here📎https://lnkd.in/e8eAuBTW

Thank you for following our ‘Flood Risk and Planning Focus Week’🛠️💧, we hope you have found it useful. To view all of the information we have covered during the Focus Week, take a look at #TheFloodHub here: ➡️https://lnkd.in/e543stXK ➡️https://lnkd.in/eePPCwQg    ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gHV9T_sc

#FloodFactFriday💧 Following a report published by Aviva (https://lnkd.in/eMWhHPNK /), they found that: ➡️One in seven (14%) have replaced part or all of their garden with a driveway made of non-permeable material. ➡️Among 2,004 UK homeowners, over a quarter (27%) have already changed or plan to replace part or all of their garden into a driveway with non-permeable material, such as tarmac. As highlighted in this morning’s post, it’s important to get planning permission if you pave over your drive or front garden with an impermeable surface over five square metres, if surface water drains to offsite drainage and ends up in the #sewer system. 💧Check out the @unpavetheway the Way’ page on #TheFloodHub. The project aims to educate and inspire householders to include permeable driveways, consider the use of sustainable drainage components (#SuDS), collect and store rainwater for reuse, and to encourage climate resilient planting schemes into their front gardens🌱. ➡️https://lnkd.in/eUbV2SQ6 

Did you know that building a new wall over one metre around your property requires planning permission🤔? Check out our graphic below to see what else does or doesn't require planning permission👇. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eePPCwQg

💧🏡Click the following link to download our ‘Purchasing Property and Flood Risk' resource➡️: https://lnkd.in/eFH5qhEA It lists the things to consider when buying a property and details how to become more resilient if you find yourself at risk📋.

Before buying a property, how do you check your flood risk🤔💧🏡? Firstly, be aware of the different types of #flooding. You can do this on #TheFloodHub here: https://lnkd.in/e7MaMQdW Next, use the Environment Agency 's Flood Risk Maps, there are the following maps that are available to use: 🗺️A map showing the potential extent of flooding to properties from rivers, surface water or reservoirs across the UK, as well as details of the long-term risk of flooding for a property: https://lnkd.in/dCfugZwA 🗺️This flood map for planning is used in development planning to find out the probability of flooding for a location, and indicates the flood zone an area is in: https://lnkd.in/e2_neMf7. There may be extra information available for your local area from your Local Authority or County Council. Check out The Flood Hub for more information ➡️: https://lnkd.in/e543stXK

The final management option that we will cover today is 💧Flood Storage Areas – These involve the use of an outlet structure which holds floodwater and then returns it to a river at a controlled rate, once the flood peak has passed. Water storage can be classed as online or offline and can be both a man-made or #NaturalFloodManagement (#NFM) measure. For more info, click here: https://lnkd.in/e543stXK

🏡Property Flood Resilience (#PFR) - PFR includes measures that reduce the risks to people and property enabling households and businesses to reduce flood damage and speed up recovery and reoccupation. PFR measures should reduce the amount of water entering buildings (known as resistance measures), or limit the damage caused if water does enter a building (known as resilience measures). These measures can be incorporated into developments to help improve #flood management in the area.   More information on PFR can be found by clicking here: www.thefloodhub.co.uk/pfr

💬 We want to hear from you! 💬 🤔Have you used The Flood Hub? Let us know which sections you find useful and what could be improved! ✅Your input helps shape The Flood Hub into an even better resource for communities, householders, and businesses across the North West. Pass your thoughts here📎https://lnkd.in/e8eAuBTW

Do you know what a Site Specific #Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) is & who carries them out🤔? A site-specific flood risk assessment (FRA) is required to be carried out under the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). It is carried out by developers, or a consultant on behalf of the developer, and requires them to assess all sources of flood risk associated with new development. It must show how flood risk will be managed now and over the lifetime of the development, taking climate change and the vulnerability of the developments users into account, and ensure that flood risk is not increased elsewhere as a result of the development. The site-specific FRA should be proportionate to the degree of flood risk, scale, nature and location of the development, and effectively use the information available. For more information on site-specific FRAs and to determine whether your development will need one, please click the following links: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eePPCwQg ➡️https://lnkd.in/esXHC9iK