Solutions for joint funding of surface water schemes
A guide for local lead flood authorities (LLFAs) to joint funding and collaborative investment across partner organisations.
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Background
Local flood risk management (LFRM), as defined in the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, requires several different partner organisations. Led by lead local flood authorities (LLFAs), the idea is to collaborate and coordinate their approaches.
Reducing local flood risk will also require new ways of funding. This could be through joint funding of schemes and collaborative investment across partner organisations. Joint funding and collaborative investment to reduce local flood risk is not widely implemented. This is partly due to a lack of understanding of the funding mechanisms, approval processes and opportunities to implement joint funding and collaborative investment across organisations.
Approach
This study is a good practice guide for LLFAs. It identifies the funding mechanisms and approval processes of partnering organisations and the current issues and challenges that prevent wider implementation of joint funding and collaborative investment. It investigates practical approaches available to LLFAs to secure investment in local flood risk and uses case studies to show examples of how joint funding and collaborative investment has been achieved. Learning from these case studies can be built into the development of local strategies and schemes.
The document is intended to supplement other guidance available from:
- Defra
- the Local Government Association
- the Environment Agency
This project ran from 2010 to 2011 at a cost of £44,884.