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Steel sheet piling for the Central Prestatyn Coastal Defence Scheme delivered by Balfour Beatty will start in October 2024, following a pause in the scheme.

Tens of thousands more properties are at risk now compared to 2018 due to deteriorating flood defences, according to a leak to the Guardian newspaper.

Construction works for the Aberaeron coastal flood defence scheme in Wales are ramping up, despite logistical challenges and extensive environmental protection requirements.

Communities and infrastructure are being left at risk of flooding due to the government’s failure to properly fund internal drainage boards (IDBs), according to the District Councils’ Network (DCN).

An excavator being used for a Bam Nuttall-led coastal defence scheme has been left underwater off the town of Aberaeron in west Wales after an electrical fault forced workers to abandon it to the waves.

North Ayrshire Council has seen milestones on two flood coastal with offshore works completed on the £48M Millport Flood Protection Scheme and construction of the £4.6M Largs sea wall entering its final stage.

Stirling Council has identified a preferred design for a £15M flood defence scheme to protect Bridge of Allan in Stirlingshire.

Underground pumping stations will form part of the £500M Grangemouth flood protection scheme in Scotland if Falkirk Council’s ‘preferred scheme’ goes ahead.

Nature-based flood defences, redirection structures and refurbishment of existing defences are being funded in Brighouse, Leeds and Huddersfield following sign-off by West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s (WYCA) climate, energy environment committee.

Funding for flood defences in Wales must more than triple it is to keep up with the scale of change brought by the climate emergency, according to Natural Resources Wales (NRW).