Flooding

Advice on what to do during a flooding event, how to report a flood and details of new plans and schemes to prevent flooding.

Flood emergency advice

On this page you can find out more information about planning, managing and recovering from a flood.

Planning plays a fundamentally critical role in flood risk management.

This page gives advice on how to prepare you property for flooding and to find out if any flooding is forecast.

If you wish to carry out works on or near a watercourse you will need to submit your work plans.

Worcestershire County Council has a duty to investigate flood events it deems to be 'significant.'

View plans policies and strategies for flooding in Worcestershire.

Responsibility for flood risk management is shared amongst a number of different organisations and individuals.

The aim of the project is to hold back water in upstream areas by applying natural methods in order to 'slow the flow' of water.

This page identifies the different types of floods and who are responsible for them.

Read about schemes in Worcester to help prevent flooding on the gov.uk website: