Title: Flooding and historic buildings  
Publisher: English Heritage
Date: 2010
Resource: Guidance
Description: Designed to help those who live in, own or manage historic buildings that may be threatened by periodic flooding. It provides advice on preventative measures as well as on the inspection, conservation and repair of historic buildings after flooding.

Title: Planning policy statement 25: development and flood risk  
Publisher: Department of Communities and Local Government
Date: March 2010
Resource: Guidance
Description: Identifies aims for sustainable development, looking at climate change and forms of flooding. Explains the sequential test and exception test, together with the assessment of flood risk, management of surface water, management of residual flood risk, and roles and responsibilities of parties. Clarifies the definition of functional floodplain, and amends how the policy is applied to essential infrastructure in flood risk areas. A supplement on Development and Coastal Change has also been added.

Title: Surface water management plan technical guidance   
Publisher: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Date: March 2010
Resource: Guidance
Description: Informs local authorities on how to approach the development of a surface water management plan, particularly in areas of high risk of surface water flooding. The guidance reflects the roles that different organisations will take in the development of surface water management plans.

Title: Flooding case studies  
Publisher: IDeA
Date: March 2010
Resource: Case studies
Description: Gives details of Suffolk flood risk management partnership, examining how the partners are gaining a greater understanding of each other's roles and responsibilities; and Lincolnshire’s flood risk and drainage management framework which looks at how the partnership was formed and how it has succeeded in gaining funding and contributing to national policy.

Title: Integrated management of floodplains
Publisher: Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
Date: February 2010
Resource: Report
Description: Project to investigate the factors influencing changes in land use on flood plains, and the ways in which land and water can be managed to meet the diverse and competing demands of agriculture, nature conservation, flood control and recreation.

Title: Joint policy statement on managing urban flood risk
Publisher: RTPI, ICE, CIWEM, RIBA, RICS, RUSI and the Landscape Institute
Date: 2009
Resource: Policy paper
Description: Against a background of creating a more joined up approach, the need for sustainable solutions and the challenges of climate change, this joint policy statement aims to inform and guide members and the wider industry.

Title: London three rivers action plan     RTPI Planning Awards 2009 Winner
Publisher: The River Restoration Centre
Date: January 2009
Resource: Toolkit
Description: Aims to raise the profile of river restoration as a key feature of sustainable development. Its innovative and imaginative use of the planning process has already achieved positive results. Tool to find out about river restoration opportunities so that they can be flagged up early in the planning process. The website provides a forum for keeping information up to date. 

Title: Flood risk management
Publisher: Entec
Date: Launched 2008
Resource: Website
Description: Pulls together news, opinion and useful resources, and acts as a space for developing debate on the future of flood risk, and encourages participation by professionals.

Title: The Pitt review: lessons learnt from the 2007 floods
Publisher: Cabinet Office
Date: June 2008
Resource: Review final report
Description: Contains 92 recommendations. Including “greater leadership by local authorities on flooding and local drainage, including mapping of drainage systems and audit of local water assets to assess flood risk and clarify responsibilities for maintenance” and a “duty on all relevant organisations to share information and co-operate with the Environment Agency and local authorities in managing flood risk.

Title: Using science to create a better place: cost-benefit of SUDS retrofit in urban areas
Publisher: Environment Agency
Date: November 2007
Resource: Report
Description: Sets out the importance of sustainable drainage systems in developed areas and addresses issues such as cost and adoption as well as looking at the benefits of sustainable drainage systems.

Title: Flooding
Publisher: Improvement and Development Agency
Date: Established October 2009
Resource: Website
Description: Offers background information and guidance on flood risk and surface water management.

Title: Landform: Local Authority Network on Drainage and Flood Risk Management
Publisher: Landform: Local Authority Network on Drainage and Flood Risk Management
Date: Ongoing
Resource: Organisation’s website
Description: Network disseminating good practice, research outputs and policy relating to sustainable drainage and flood risk management to planners and operational staff within LPAs.