Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS)

The Act requires the Environment Agency to develop, maintain and apply a National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy.

Similarly, the Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) is required to develop a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy for its area.

The LLFA’s strategy must specify:

• risk management authorities within that area
• their flood and coastal erosion risk management functions and objectives for managing flood risk
• measures proposed to achieve those objectives
• how and when the measures are expected to be implemented
• costs and benefits and funding sources
• assessment of local flood risk
• how and when the strategy is to be reviewed
• how the strategy contributes to the wider environmental objectives