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<p>Lead Local Flood Authorities have a duty to develop, maintain, apply and monitor
a strategy for local flood risk management in its area, and the Government is supportive
of them working together to deliver shared mitigations for a wider area.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government has committed to reform the current approach to local flood risk planning
by 2026, ensuring every area of England will have a more strategic and comprehensive
plan that drives long-term local action and investment and supports a catchment-based
approach. To strengthen collaboration, we will encourage flood and coastal erosion
risk management activities across local authority boundaries and explore options to
join up flood resilience with other responsibilities held by Mayors or Combined Authorities.</p><p>
</p><p>As part of the Government’s six-year £200 million flood and coastal innovation
programme (FCIP), £8 million is allocated to four adaptation pathways to support work
in the Thames and Humber estuaries, the Severn Valley and Yorkshire to trial and develop
ways of planning ahead and making wise investment choices for the decades to come
in the face of the long-term uncertainties brought by climate change. The West Yorkshire
Adaption Pathway (WYAP) project is developing a community-scale surface water flood
risk adaptation plan for a town in West Yorkshire. The South Yorkshire Adaption Pathway
(SYAP) project aims to develop an adaptation pathway plan for South Yorkshire which
will ensure that all decision-making on, and implementation of, long-term, future
adaptation is as efficient and effective as possible.</p>
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