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Flooding and your property

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

Assessing the risk of flooding

Your property/ business could be at risk from flooding. The flooding could be from different sources: types of flooding.

Check if your property is at risk from flooding:

If your property is as risk, you could create your own flood plan, for more information:

Risk of flooding:

find out if you're at risk of flooding in England
visit Know your Flood Risk for live flood updates app and to buy a flood report for your property

Flood protection:

visit National Flood Forum for information on Flood Protection and Resilience and preparing for flooding (also visit Facebook - The National Flood Forum)
download homeowners guide to flood resilience
see information on how to get sandbags
visit BRE for useful flooding tips for your property
download BRE - Six Steps to Property Level Flood Resilience

Flood insurance:

for specialist flooding insurance for properties at risk or have previously flooded visit the FloodRe

Historic buildings:

visit Historic England for advice on flood protection, resilience and preparing for flooding of historic buildings

If your community is frequently flooded it might be worth setting up a local flood group.

The National Flood Forum lists the benefits of setting up a local flood group which can:

address concerns over malfunctioning assets/and other issues
be constantly in touch with what is intended for their community
know procedures that are already in place regards routine maintenance
have a voice as to the future flood risk of their community through consultation
instigate ‘flood watchers’
create awareness of flood risk to the wider community
prepare to reduce the impact on the community should a flood event occur.

Find out how to form a flood group on the National Flood Forum website.

Please contact the Flood Risk Management Team if you would like to add your flood group to this page.