Flood recovery grants
If your property or business has been flooded or significantly impacted due to flooding by storm Henk between 2 to 12 January 2024, you may be eligible for grants under the Flood Recovery Framework.
Property Flood Resilience repair grant scheme
The purpose of the Property Flood Resilience (PFR) repair grant scheme is to assist home and business owners to improve the flood resilience of their individual properties when they repair them after a flood. The outcome from this funding should be that if flooding were to reoccur, damage levels would be considerably lower, and property owners and businesses could return to their properties much more quickly.
Up to £5,000 (including VAT) is available per property to make homes and businesses more flood resilient and to allow them to recover more quickly from future flooding.
The grant is available to improve the flood resilience of a property; it is not compensation for flood damage, nor is it to be used for speculative work. It is for improvements to a property to reduce future flood damage. Only fully completed works that improve the flood resilience of a property will be reimbursed.
The deadline to submit an Expression of Interest for the PFR Repair Grant Scheme has now passed.
Community recovery grant
Your household will be eligible for a £500 community recovery grant if your residence was deemed to have been impacted by storm Henk i.e. your residence was flooded internally or was unliveable for a period of greater than 48 hours.
This grant was administered by the district councils and applications are now closed. For more information, please visit:
Council tax discount
Your household will be eligible for 100% council tax discount for a minimum of three months if your property has been flooded, or is considered unliveable, as a consequence of storm Henk.
This grant was administered by the district councils and applications are now closed. For more information, please visit:
Business recovery grant
Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) who have suffered severe impacts from flooding during storm Henk can apply for up to £2,500 from the business recovery grant.
This grant was administered by the district councils and applications are now closed. For more information, please visit:
Business rates relief
If your business was directly impacted by storm Henk, you will be eligible for 100% relief from business rates for a minimum of three months.
This grant was administered by the district councils and applications are now closed. For more information, please visit:
Farming recovery fund
The Farming Recovery Grants are now live. Eligible farmers in England who suffered damage to their land during Storm Henk that was uninsurable, will be contacted by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) about a grant to help cover the costs of returning the land to the condition it was in before it flooded. More information from DEFRA can be found on their blog.
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