Ruislip Property Flood Resilience

This webpage was last updated on 31st October 2023. We will provide a further update as soon as more information becomes available. Thank you for you patience.

Overview

Welcome to the Ruislip Property Flood Resilience (PFR) project page. If you have landed here and would like to learn more about the wider catchment itself, or any of the other Pinn projects, please go back to our ‘start here’ page.

This update focuses specifically on the latest developments related to PFR. Please find all previous updates to the right of this webpage. If you can't find an answer to your question(s) on this page or in our FAQs, you can email the team at RuislipPWPM@environment-agency.gov.uk

Where are we now?

Property Flood Resilience

PFR includes any measures to reduce the risks to people and property, enabling households and businesses to reduce damage, speed up recovery, reoccupy flooded buildings and potentially obtain insurance cover more easily and affordably.

In the context of PFR there is a difference between resistance measures and resilience measures. Resistance includes measures which reduce the risk of water getting into a property. Resilience is about reducing the impact of flooding should water get inside the property.

Resistance measures often involve preventing water entering the property in the first place and includes a combination of products. It can include flood boards and doors, flood barriers to stop water coming through doorways, air brick covers, non-return valves, pumps and toilet bungs. These measures can also allow you time to move possessions from ground level as well as to get people to a place of safety if a flood is expected to exceed the resistance measures. Temporary flood resistance products are those that need deploying (fitting or activating) prior to flooding arriving whereas permanent flood resistance products do not need activating.

Resilience measures aim to ensure that damage is minimised if water does get inside the property and that you can get back into your home or business as quickly as possible. Examples of resilience measures include using flood resistant coatings on walls, placing plug sockets higher up on the wall, tiled floors and installing concrete floors instead of wooden floorboards.

Further guidance on PFR, including information on products and our FAQs, are provided to the right of this webpage.

How were properties selected for PFR?

We offered PFR surveys to all properties that are either in the ‘Very Significant’ or ‘Significant’ flood risk category of flooding from rivers according to Environment Agency modelling. We also offered PFR surveys to those which are not in these risk bands but reported internal flooding to the London Borough of Hillingdon or the Environment Agency following the flooding in June 2016. Eligible property owners were contacted last summer and invited to our engagement events.

Next steps

The programme below outlines the key next steps in the project:

We will be keeping this webpage updated over the coming weeks. You can receive automatic notifications when new information is shared by subscribing to the project (see link to the right).

Thank you for taking the time to read through our site. If you can't find an answer to your question(s) on this page or in our FAQs, you can email the team at RuislipPWPM@environment-agency.gov.uk