Guidance on enabling community maintenance for local flood risk management (C821F)

If you or your local community group want to reduce flood risk by maintaining drainage, watercourses and flood defences but you don’t know where to start, these three documents can help.

C821a Taking action. Reducing the risk of flooding for your community by maintaining drainage, watercourses and flood defences was created to explore enabling community maintenance for local flood risk management. It describes the necessary steps to organise a group with a view of doing maintenance activities on local flood risk assets.

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C821b Risk management authorities' guide to supporting community maintenance was produced for risk management authorities. It describes the benefits of a positive collaboration with local groups to sustain flood risk assets.

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C821c Briefing note for policy and strategy staff: enabling and supporting communities in voluntary maintenance of flood assets is a short briefing note created for strategy/policy staff, which traces a line through existing policies involving community groups in maintaining flood risk assets.

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