The term, ‘PFR’ stands for Property Flood Resilience and refers to any measure that can be applied to a building to make people and properties less vulnerable to the physical impacts of flooding. It can help people and properties become more resilient to the impacts of flooding and reduce the length of time needed for recovery if flooding were to reoccur, however there is always a residual risk that people and properties will still be flooded.
If you would like to understand more about the potential measures that this grant may be able to fund and what the cost of these may be, we can suggest visiting the National Flood Forum website. This national charity provides a large amount of information about property level protection, including: a step by step guide to installation, the Blue Pages - information about qualified surveyors, contractors and the kite marked materials used for PFR. The Flood Hub have produced a Homeowners Guide, which provides a comprehensive summary of PFR measures.
The Property Protection Advisor is a helpful tool that uses national data about properties and flood risk that you can customise for your house to identify potential PFR options and likely costs. We suggest you use this tool to better understand what this grant may be able to fund before engaging a surveyor. The report produced from the Property Protection Advisor tool should be used as a guide and should not be used to substitute a property survey, carried out by an independent, building surveyor.
BeFloodReady is another website with helpful information and videos to help you understand how to make your home more resistant to flood water and resilient to the impact it can have.
Free PFR training for homeowners – sign up to the training with the Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management is offering a free 10 hour training module for homeowners who suffered flooding during Storm Babet. You will learn how to prepare for future events and better protect your property.