Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS)

The Flood and Water Management Act requires the Environment Agency to develop, maintain and apply a National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy.

Similarly, the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) is required to develop a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for its area.

The LLFA’s strategy must specify:

• risk management authorities within that area
• their flood and coastal erosion
• risk management functions and objectives for managing flood risk
• measures proposed to achieve those objectives
• how and when the measures are expected to be implemented
• costs and benefits and funding sources assessment of local flood risk
• how and when the strategy is to be reviewed
• how the strategy contributes to the wider environmental objectives

The Strategy and supporting documents:

• Local Flood and Water Management Strategy.
• Interim Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Environmental Report (Nov 2019)
• Habitat Regulations Assessment Stage 1 Screening (Feb 2020)