Following Storm Desmond last December, the government launched a National Flood Resilience Review. The review will be chaired by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Letwin.
The Review will assess how the country can be better protected from future flooding and increasingly extreme weather events. It will focus on four key areas: updating our climate modelling and stress-testing the nation’s resilience to flood risk; assessing the resilience of our important infrastructure like electricity substations; our temporary defences; and our future investment strategy.
This call for evidence specifically focuses on the need to carry out a new assessment of the damage that extreme rainfall could cause across England. This will focus on the impacts on populated areas including urban areas and crucial elements of infrastructure such as significant roads, bridges, energy infrastructure, water treatment plants, telecoms and hospitals. We want to understand the possible implications of extreme events and to review our current modelling assumptions.
More information can be found here.
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