Property Flood Resilience Scheme

(asked on 9th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing the Property Flood Resilience grant to take account additional costs of (a) surveys and (b) planning permission.


Answered by
Rebecca Pow Portrait
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 14th March 2022

The Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Repair Grant Scheme is part of the Government Flood Recovery Framework and, if activated, reimburses local authorities for awarding grants of up to £5000 towards the cost of repairs to make homes flood resilient.

For successful applications, up to £500 is available (as part of the £5,000 PFR 2020 grant) to fund the cost of an independent pre-installation survey (to develop the project plan) and post completion inspection of the completed work, by a suitably qualified independent surveyor.

Defra last launched the PFR Repair Grant scheme following the flooding in November 2019 and February 2020. Requests for additional support for planning applications in both these schemes have been minimal as most PFR measures do not require planning permission.

Defra is currently carrying out an evaluation of the PFR Repair Grant scheme. The outcomes of this evaluation will inform any PFR repair grant schemes that may be run in the future.

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