EA Flood risk assessment (March 2018)

Question 1

How many homes and businesses in England are at risk from flooding?

Answer 1

5.2 million.

Question 2

What is Natural flood management (NFM)?

Answer 2

Natural flood management (NFM) is about using or recreating natural landscape features to reduce the risk from flooding. It typically involves slowing or storing flood water.

Examples range from big projects like restoring natural bends on artificially straightened rivers so water flows more slowly to creating natural blockages causing water to pond in upland areas.

Question 3

Information about the risk of flooding and coastal erosion has many uses, including:

Answer 3

• ensuring that investment in flood and coastal erosion schemes is proportionate to need and directed to where it achieves the best value
• informing developer and local planning authority decisions on future development and infrastructure
• helping emergency planners to prepare how they will respond to floods
• enabling people to understand and make decisions about the risk they face