Warrington Borough Council has provided updates on three projects which have been undertaken to keep residents and businesses safe following the floods in January 2021.
The new schemes will support nature recovery and climate action by rewarding farmers in their local area, alongside sustainable and profitable food production.
Thousands of trees are to be planted in a Lake District valley in an attempt to reduce flooding and improve habitats for wildlife.
Emergency works on a river side retaining wall in Cockermouth have been completed, strengthening the existing flood defences during winter.
January sees the start of construction of two new sections of the Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme. The Environment Agency and contractors, Volker Stevin, will begin work at Busher Walk and Benson Green in Kendal with construction works taking around four months to complete.
Work on the flood defences at Clarks as part the Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme are now complete. The area now benefits from 114m of flood defences and a new flood wall, as well as a range of community improvements with an area of grassland restored and a seating area reinstated.
The Strategic flood risk assessment good practice guide provides practical information and advice for Local Planning Authorities, and others who support them, on how to scope, produce and use strategic flood risk assessments to fulfil national planning policy requirements efficiently and effectively.
During the consultation period the Environment Agency want your views on the draft FRMPs. Your views will inform a final set of plans that will set out actions to manage flood risk between 2021-2027.
Ground investigation works for a potential flood scheme in Prestolee and Stoneclough have completed
On 24 November 2021 six new flood warning services were launched in Ambleside and Crake Valley (Cumbria), Horwich (Greater Manchester), Blackburn and Wennington (Lancashire).
Environment Agency urges action as Met Office warns of above average likelihood of a wet winter.
From 29th November – 5th December we are hosting a Community Flood Resilience Week campaign looking at how communities can work together to reduce the impacts of flooding and increase their resilience to it.
The North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) has been refreshing its business plan to set ambitious and clear priorities from 2022 to 2025
Businesses across the Cumbria region are being offered FREE places on an online course run by the Flood Innovation Centre, aimed at helping them to benefit from the opportunities available in the growing property flood resilience sector.
Residents in Reddish Lane, Lymm who have suffered a long history of flooding incidents are receiving a major boost, thanks to a new project.
The Environment Agency in the North West is preparing for winter with a series of training exercises to make sure they are ready to respond to flood incidents
Heavy and persistent rainfall fell over Cumbria and Lancashire between the 26th and 29th October 2021, significant rainfall totals fell over Central and Western Cumbria in particular. As a result Flood warnings were issued at a number of locations and unfortunately a number of communities and properties were flooded.
Construction works as part of the £76million Flood Risk Management Scheme on Natland Road and at Romney Gardens in Kendal are now complete.
The Wyre Natural Flood Management project (Wyre NFM) is set to receive £1.5m in private investment to implement Natural Flood Management measures to help at-risk communities in Lancashire.
With less than three weeks to COP26, Environment Agency warns that adaptation – becoming resilient to the effects of climate change – is just as vital as mitigation
A day spent carrying out river restoration to control erosion and poaching of the riverbank using natural methods, where we have had great success in doing this in previous years.
