Helping Yorkshire become more flood resilient

There’s plenty of information and advice on the brand new website for homes and businesses across Yorkshire to help make properties more resilient to flooding.
Protect your home against flood damageProtect your home against flood damage
Protect your home against flood damage

Yorkshire Flood Resilience is one of three Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder Projects nationally that have been funded by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Its aim is to raise awareness of property flood resilience measures, which is a term used to describe measures that reduce the risk of flood damage to properties, speed up recovery and enable people to move back into properties more quickly after flooding.

The measures are installed in homes or businesses to make them less vulnerable to flooding. Some work by preventing, delaying or limiting the amount of water entering your property to give you more time to move your belongings above ground level and move your family and pets to safety.

Other examples include materials, products and construction techniques to adapt the inside of your property to minimise the damage caused if floodwater does enter, an approach that reduces the likelihood of permanent damage to your home or business, and speeds up recovery after a flood.

The new system aims to raise awareness of property flood resilience measuresThe new system aims to raise awareness of property flood resilience measures
The new system aims to raise awareness of property flood resilience measures

Yorkshire Flood Resilience Project Manager Steve Wragg said: “Communities across Yorkshire face a variety of different flood risks, but many home and business owners don’t realise that there are steps they can take themselves to make their property more resilient to flooding. Property flood resilience solutions are bespoke to each property and there are plenty of expert providers out there who will work with property owners to identify the most appropriate measures for the type of flooding they face.”

He added: “Our new website is a valuable resource for people to who want to learn more about property flood resilience and its benefits. We want people to be aware that it is possible to protect yourself and your family, and your home or business, against the stress, worry, disruption and cost of flooding. Our goal is to help communities here in Yorkshire understand how to do just that.”

The new website – www.yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk – explains how property flood resilience measures work and shows people what they look like. It also features case studies and videos about home and business owners who have installed property flood resilience measures, as well as articles and blogs contributed by leading experts on flood resilience, links to useful websites and resources and much more besides.”

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