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Flood and coastal erosion risk management planning resources

Catchment Flood Management Plans, Shoreline Management Plans, Preliminary Flood Risk Assessments,investment and funding-plans, guidance and tools for local authorities, Lead Local Flood Authorities and others to help reduce flood and coastal erosion risk.

  • Flood and coastal risk management investment and funding

    Information about partnership funding, how to apply for funding for studies, strategies and projects, FCERM-AG appraisal guidance, programmes of schemes, and our progress towards achieving Defra’s outcome measures.

  • Flood Risk Regulations

    Find out how the Flood Risk Regulations are being implemented, the roles and responsibilities of lead local flood authorities and ourselves, and the assessments, maps and plans being produced.

  • Managing flood risk by working with natural processes

    Using natural processes can help us make flood risk management more sustainable and cost-effective than hard, engineered defences. They can also bring added benefits to wildlife as well as help to regenerate rural and urban spaces.

  • Regulation of activities on ordinary watercourses

    Information and advice for lead local flood authorities issuing consents and undertaking enforcement action to manage activities and flood risk on ordinary watercourses.

  • Climate change tools to support local flood risk management strategies

    Tools to help Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) consider the impacts of climate change on sources of local flood risk for each River Basin District across England and Wales.

  • Catchment Flood Management Plans

    Find out what Catchment Flood Management Plans are, what they contain and summary plans for your area.

  • Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs)

    Find out about our changing coastline and how Shoreline Management Plans will manage the risks of flooding and coastal erosion

  • Flooding from surface water

    In November 2010 a new Flood Map for Surface Water was made available to Lead Local Flood Authorities, Local Resilience Forums and Local Planning Authorities.

  • Multi Agency Flood Plans (MAFPs)

    Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) are developing MAFPs to help organisations who are involved in responding to a flood work together better. Find guidance for developing the plans and a checklist that is used by LRFs to assess them.