F2: Communities resilient to flooding and coastal erosion

Short description

This indicator will allow us to monitor trends over time to better understand the impact of our policies and take action to protect and benefit our communities to build resilience everywhere.

We continue to refine the approach being taken in the finalisation of this indicator to ensure it aligns with the government’s recent Policy Statement on Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management, which sets out government’s commitment to develop a relevant national set of flood indicators by spring 2022, and the Environment Agency’s recently published the updated National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Strategy for England.

Readiness and links to data

This indicator is not available for reporting in 2021 as significant further development is required.

Since the last update to the indicator framework in May 2020, the government has set out its policies to tackle flood and coastal erosion risk in the long term in the Flood and coastal erosion risk management policy statement. At the same time, the Environment Agency published the updated National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Strategy for England and recently reported progress against this in the National flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy for England action plan. We have commissioned new research to inform the development of FCERM indicators for future reporting. As part of this work we are reviewing the F1 and F2 indicators for the 25 Year Environment Plan to ensure they align with the outcomes of the policy statement and national strategy.