Community and businesses
Maintenance and prevention
Responsibility for drainage
Responsibility for drainage in rural and urban areas
Enforcing issues that could cause flooding
The Land Drainage Act 1991 gives us powers to enforce certain issues
Flood prevention
There are a whole host of ways to help reduce the impacts of flooding and protect your property and land
Ordinary watercourse land drainage consents
Getting consent to erect or alter an existing obstruction to the flow in an ordinary watercourse and other consents
Springs
Identifying if a spring is a natural spring or a leak, and what to do about it
Planning, development and investigations
Surface water planning
All major planning applications need to demonstrate the use of sustainable drainage as part of their development
Flood investigation reports
Discover if a flood investigation has taken place in your community, and find out what the cause was
Flood mapping
Mapping showing risk of flooding and key sites in North Northamptonshire