Policy & Research
We make complex flood policy understandable and make sure the experience of flooded people reaches the rooms where decisions are made.
Policy or media enquiryOur policy priorities
These priorities grow from what flooded people and Flood Action Groups tell us across the country.
We need to fix the ‘externalities’ problem. Developers, oil & gas, and water companies who contribute to raising the risk. But the cost of managing it is borne by households and taxpayers. We need everyone to contribute to fix this.
We support the National Infrastructure Commission's recommendation to achieve a national standard of protection. This means a big plan to get shovels in the ground to keep people safe.
For the floods we cannot prevent, people need care, clear information and meaningful help to recover.
Latest
Community update · 30 June 2026
MESSAGE FROM SANJAY – I hope you’re all staying cool. This recent heatwave has stirred some thoughts for me. Something that has become increasingly clear through my conversations with communities up and down the country, is that flooded people are seeing our climate change with their own eyes, becoming the frontline experts of experiencing its effects. For many, climate extremes are no longer a matter of abstract or hypothetical debates about something that might happen in the future. They...
Policy explainer · 2 June 2026
How to make sense of the government’s flood funding announcements for England: what the headline figures mean, how flood budgets work, whether investment is adequate, and where the numbers remain genuinely uncertain.
Consultation response · 2 June 2026
A briefing on the Government's proposed reforms to England's National Planning Policy Framework and what they mean for flood risk — especially surface water flooding — and the position of Flooded People UK and the flood action groups it represents.
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A monthly take on UK flood and coastal erosion risk management, for the professionals working in it.
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We collaborate with Flood Action Groups, NGOs, researchers, funders, journalists and public bodies. We can help ground work in community experience, test assumptions and build credible shared positions.
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