Do social housing providers across Yorkshire and the East Midlands have effective flood risk management in place when maintaining and repairing their housing stock?

This paper investigates whether social housing providers across Yorkshire and the East Midlands have effective flood risk management in place to mitigate the impacts of inevitable future flooding. A comprehensive review of current literature highlights a plethora of variables magnifying the risk of future flooding in the UK and a number of measures available to reduce the impacts of future flooding on both property and occupiers. Further research has suggested a lack of preparedness on behalf of the social housing providers in respect of managing the risk of future flooding. In addition, there is limited awareness of flood-resilient repair and a lack of both technical skills and experience available to manage what is a specialist process in a very immature market — flood damage remediation.