Three weeks after last month’s devastating Cumbria floods, the Environment Agency is urging owners of damaged properties to insist that insurers repair their homes and businesses to be more flood-resilient.
Properties affected by flooding are often simply returned to their previous state, meaning that similar damage is likely if flooding occurs in future.
Repairing a property that has been flooded offers a chance to minimise the damage and disruption that could be caused by any future flood.