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<p>The Government is investing a record £5.2 billion in a new six-year capital investment
programme to deliver around 2,000 flood schemes, benefiting every region of England,
better protecting 336,000 properties from flooding.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment
Agency routinely inspects and maintains its existing flood risk management assets
at the Frankwell and Coleham Head areas in Shrewsbury, ensuring they remain operational
and highly effective at alleviating flooding to properties, businesses and infrastructure
including through the most recent significant flooding events.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment
Agency with the River Severn Partnership is developing a catchment scale approach
to sustainable flood risk and water management across the Upper Severn catchment,
to help address flooding and the impacts of climate change under the Severn Valley
Water Management Scheme. This scheme has been provided with £10 million of Government
Economic Recovery Funding to support the development of business cases and the frameworks
needed to underpin future delivery. Amongst other outcomes, the scheme seeks to develop
catchment-based approaches to reduce flood risk to up to 3,000 properties and 1,000
businesses across the upper and middle Severn. An additional £4.5 million of economic
recovery funding has also been allocated to ‘demonstrator’ projects benefiting the
Shrewsbury region: at Attingham Park, on the Rea Brook, in Guilsfield, Afon Camlad
and Afon Cain Brooks in the upstream catchment.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The
Environment Agency and partners are also developing a long term Climate Resilience
& Adaption Strategy to cover the geographical extent of the River Severn area,
encompassing the Severn catchment, comprising the Severn, Teme, Avon and Wye.</p>
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