Major flood defences designed to protect more than 160,000 residents at risk of flooding have been approved by the government. The Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme will be built along the River ...

Oxford has faced a series of floods over the last two decades Major flood defences designed to protect more than 160,000 residents at risk of flooding have been approved by the government.

Construction work is set to start on the second phase of a major flood defence scheme for Derby. A new flood wall and floodgates are set to be constructed as part of the Derby Riverside scheme ...

We welcome the 1.5m new homes and acknowledge they need to be built but they need investment in flood defences.” Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Some 109,000 new homes built in England ...

Article continues below "That's why we are investing a record £2.65billion to build and maintain flood defences, protecting homes, lives and businesses across the country." Defra added that under ...

making improvements to existing defences raising the height of some existing defences building new flood defence walls building new embankments. The Environment Agency is helping deliver the ...

Kington Town Council has declined an offer to join a new scheme to help minimise the disruption of flooding but will develop a new flood plan soon Herefordshire Council is piloting the new scheme ...

Photo: @DubFireBrigade A Clontarf councillor who is demanding more urgent flood defence action, says “there’s a risk to life, a risk to health”. Fine Gael councillor Clodagh Ní Mhuirí ...