Richfords news

The National Farmers Union is outlining its case in its new Flooding Manifesto, which insists that further funding is needed to make coastal farmland more resilient when extreme weather hits and tidal surges put pressure on defenses.

A panel of MPs are claiming the Government needs to tackle urgently what it considers ‘fragmented and ineffective’ flood management. However, ministers have rejected the Commons Environment Committee’s criticism that more needs to be done on how flooding is affecting home insurance and local authority planning. One idea proposed by the Environment, Food and Rural […]

Oxford University’s Professor John Krebs is telling the Climate Change Committee that Britain still lacks a plan to deal with flooding.

The Environment and Rural Affairs committee is issuing its suggestions for changing the way we cope with the growing tide of flooding events across the UK. 

Beavers have been reintroduced to the UK and are reshaping land to be flood-resistant.

It was the hottest September day since 1911 in the south east of England – however, in Cornwall, it turned out to be among the wettest.

Braunton suffered severe flooding on Boxing Day 2012 and thus sparked a stream of works to rectify the North Devon town’s problems.

The report was commissioned in the wake of the catastrophic flooding which hit Leeds, York and the Calder Valley last winter.

The Spectator has published an article explaining how domestic flooding insurance claims are being settled. It claims 95% have been settled either fully or partly.

Richfords Fire & Flood has developed a system which enables technicians to reduce the amount of site visits to monitor the progress of drying properties after flooding or an escape of water.