DEFRA Property level flood protection funding 2011-12
18/07/2011
The Environment Agency and Department of Environment Food
and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has made £2.35 million of Flood Defence Grant in Aid
funding available for property level flood protection, such as flood barriers
for doors and airbrick covers, in 2011/12.
The funding is available for groups
of residential properties in areas that are at high risk from flooding and
where there is no prospect of a community flood defence in the foreseeable
future.
This
funding follows roughly the same principles as the Defra-funded grant scheme
which
ran from 2009 and ended in March
2011. It can be spent on property surveys to determine the most appropriate
measures to protect individual properties, as well as pay for the full cost or
a proportion of the cost for the measures and their installation.
Timescales
The £2.35 million is only available
this financial year (April 2011 - end of March 2012) and flood protection
measures will need to be in place and costs claimed by 31 March 2012.
The closing date for all
applications was Friday 15 April 2011.
Where
will the funding be used?
Following the application and review
process, a
full list of communities
that will benefit from the funding was published on 12 May
2011.
Who
was eligible to apply?
Local Authorities were able to apply
for the funding and are responsible for carrying out the schemes for communities.
Local Environment Agency teams were also able to apply for and manage schemes
themselves.
This funding is only available for
properties in England as it is provided from Defra Flood Defence Grant in Aid.
Welsh Assembly Government fund flood risk management in Wales but do not run an
equivalent scheme.
Please
note that individual property owners were not able to apply for the funding
themselves.
Will
further funding be available in the future?
All future funding for flood and
coastal risk management will be considered under their
Future funding of flood and coastal risk
management in England consultation
.
More
information
For further information please
contact your Local Authority or the Environment Agency Asset System Management
team in Flood and Coastal Risk Management in your local office.