Explore and download our interactive Flood Guides, providing you with all you need to know about flooding
1: Agricultural Run-Off
Want to know more about flooding from agricultural run-off? Download this guide to find out where to get help, support and legal advice; and what you can do to help reduce the impacts of this type of flooding.
Find advice on how to maintain your ditch in this guide! Inside is important advice on what you should do and how to consider wildlife and any legal aspects when clearing.
Watercourse maintenance plays a key role in flood risk management. Download this guide for help with developing a maintenance guide and advice on de-silting and consenting.
If there’s a flooding issue in your community find out how to generate funding to solve the problem! Or why not visit our Funding page and try out the Funding Tool?
If there’s a watercourse in or adjacent to your land then you have a responsibility! Download this guide to find out what your responsibility is and how to reduce your flood risk.
Oxfordshire County Council is required to investigate all “significant flooding incidents” and work with those responsible to help resolve them. Download to find out more about this process.
19: Flood Related Roles of Parish Councils & Communities
Did you know Parish Councils and local residents can play an important role in managing flood risk and can attract funding to carry out flood mitigation work? Download and see how to get involved.
Find out more about the County Council’s role as Lead Local Flood Authority in these statutory documents.
Oxfordshire Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS)
Update: Following the publication of the new National Flood and Coastal Risk Management Strategy in July 2020, the Council is expecting to receive updated local strategy guidance in 2021 from the Environment Agency/DEFRA.
As Lead Local Flood Authority for Oxfordshire, the County Council needs to ‘develop, maintain, apply and monitor’ a Local Flood Risk Management Strategy. The strategy focuses on local flood risk resulting from surface water, groundwater and ordinary watercourses flooding. This strategy sets out how the Lead Local Flood Authority will manage flood risk in the future including lessons learnt from recent flooding events including 2014.
The Local Flood Risk Management Strategy (LFRMS) includes an Action Plan, which highlights the key objectives of the LFRMS and the associated actions required to achieve them. The action plan is reviewed annually and split into four themes; “Improve Understanding”, “Take a Collaborative Approach”, “Prevent an increase in Flood Risk” and “Take a Sustainable and Holistic Approach”. Details within include the key action, responsible organisation, funding source and timescales.
Oxfordshire Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment Main Report 2011
The Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA) provides a high-level summary of significant flood risk, based on available information, describing both the probability and consequences of past and future flooding. The report has assisted with the development of our local flood risk management strategy which has been developed to manage local flooding within Oxfordshire. The scope of the PFRA is to consider flooding from surface runoff, ground water and ordinary watercourses and any interaction these sources have with main rivers.
This self-assessment form is provided to enable each Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) in England to complete the first review of its PFRA and identification of flood risk areas (FRAs), as required by the Flood Risk Regulations (2009). This document therefore provides a 2017 review of the original 2011 Oxfordshire PFRA Main Report.
The aim of this booklet is to provide clear practical advice to help you prepare for and respond to an emergency, including flooding. A lot of the information is common sense, but it has saved lives in the past.
A Community Flood Plan Template created by the Oxfordshire County Council Emergency Planning Unit to be downloaded and completed to ensure your community is prepared for flooding.
An all inclusive guide for homeowners looking to become more flood resilient. This includes important information on where to find help, a list of flood protection products with indicative costs and a directory of flood protection product manufacturers and suppliers.
A template household emergency plan for you to complete to make sure you are prepared in a flooding emergency. This plan also contains useful additional information, local radio station frequencies and emergency contact numbers.
The aim of this assessment is to highlight issues you need to consider to help prepare for an emergency, such as flooding, that may disrupt your business.
information found on the “Know Your Flood Risk” campaign website. It aims to clarify the variety of ways in which a community or a property can be protected or made more resilient, and sets out when it is appropriate to use them.
A community flood store can include equipment and tools that your community can access before, during and after heavy rainfall events which can cause flooding. The contents could also help to mitigate and reduce the impacts of flooding, making communities more resilient. Northamptonshire County Council has compiled this list of equipment as a guide for your community, with estimated costs included.
These letters provide a template for Parish and Town Councils to ask landowners to clear their ditches and watercourses in order to reduce the risk of flooding in the community.
These letters provide a template for Parish and Town Councils to ask landowners to clear their ditches and watercourses in order to reduce the risk of flooding in the community.