Author(s) Priestley, S.

United Kingdom: Winter floods 2015-16

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This publication fleshes out the United Kingdom's government response to the winter floods 2015-16 and the support schemes for recovery announced. In addition, this document discusses review plans announced by the government:

a National Flood Resilience Review, taking place to better protect the UK from future flooding and increasingly extreme events.
a new Cumbrian Floods Partnership group, formed to assess what flood defences are needed, reduce intensity of water flows and build relations between locals, community groups and planners.

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Hazards Flood

Themes Disaster risk management

Country and region United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Number of pages

24 p.

Publication year

2016

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