£75,000 for flood protection projects

Date published: 18 August 2009

Rochdale is to benefit from £75,000 additional funding to help tackle surface water flooding, Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced today (Tuesday 18 August).

Rochdale is one of seventy-seven local authorities across England where the evidence shows that the risk and potential impact of surface water flooding could be highest.

Hilary Benn said: “Local authorities have a crucial role to play in tackling flooding and it’s vital that they have the information, resources and skills they need. That’s why we’ve provided this money and we want to make sure it gets to where it’s most needed and where it can make the biggest difference - especially as we know that climate change will cause increased severe rainfall in future and bring with it an increased risk of surface water flooding.”