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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what flood prevention and relief measures have been considered for Nottinghamshire.

The Environment Agency (EA) is making plans to allocate £20 million to schemes in Nottinghamshire.

This includes:

• £10 million for ‘Cocker Beck, Lowdham’, aiming to better protect 191 properties.
• £8 million for ‘Holme Sluices Urgent Works’, repairs to gates to improve functionality and extend the asset life.
• £0.7 million for ‘Property Flood Resilience Nottinghamshire Post Winter 2023 Storms’, aiming to use property flood resilience measures to better protect more than 40 properties.
• Approx. £10 – 20,000 inspecting seals on the Attenborough flood gates, replacing them if damaged, and repairing a flap valve in Toton.

The EA is also working with other Risk Management Authorities to deliver:

• Woodborough Natural Flood Management (NFM): a £197,000 project aiming to better protect 6 properties through natural flood management (NFM) measures.
• Gotham Lead Local Flooding Authorities NFM: a £35,000 project aiming to better protect 15 properties through NFM.
• Southwell Flood Alleviation Scheme: the final phase of this scheme aims to better protect another 120 properties with a 250m bund across parkland near Southwell Minster.
• Updating hydraulic models for the Erewash. This will improve flood outlines, increase accuracy of flood warnings, and increase accuracy of the floodmap for planning. It will also allow for investigations into future flood alleviation measures.