Property Flood Resilience Survey Registration

Property Flood Resilience describes ways to protect a property from flood damage.

Often, residents and businesses will pay for Property Flood Resilience Surveys to understand what options are available to them. Experienced Property Flood Resilience professionals carry out these surveys and should consider flood risk, water entry points and thresholds, and the suitability of any resistance or resilience measures for both the property and its residents, with consideration to cost restrictions.

Most Property Flood Resilience products and measures currently available have been designed and developed to address more common and widespread forms of flooding, such as river flooding and surface water flooding. A typical Property Flood Resilience survey will therefore focus on identifying and addressing these sources of flooding, whilst caveating many of the uncertainties associated with groundwater flood risks where they exist.

The Property Flood Resilience surveys undertaken as part of Project Groundwater will flip this approach on its head, looking to understand the groundwater flooding issues in greater detail in order to identify suitable and effective measures.

The surveys will be undertaken by independent Property Flood Resilience consultants, and any recommendations will be based solely on the information collected about the flood risk, the property and the resident's requirements and preferences. In contrast, other providers may offer a free report in order to get you to buy their products. While we will recommend what measures could help you, we will not push any specific products or brands.

The project will not gain financially from undertaking these surveys.

Residents that receive a survey can choose to purchase the type products recommended in the report, and shop around for the best and most affordable option for themselves.

Project Groundwater has completed 71 Property Flood Resilience Surveys to date following registrations of interest made through the Flood Experience Questionnaire.

The project has now secured funding to undertake up to 68 additional surveys.

These surveys help us to understand how flooding, and specifically groundwater flooding, is impacting people, what measures have been successful in the past, and what measures could support future resilience.

For these additional surveys, the only eligibility criteria are:

Your property must be located within one of the 9 pilot community areas. You can check the extent of these areas here.

AND

You must own the property OR have permission of the property owner for the survey to take place. The report produced must be shared with the property owner.

Properties will be offered surveys on a first-come, first-served basis.

For the first round of surveys, the eligibility criteria were determined through the Flood Experience Questionnaires.

Yes - the registration portal will close once the survey quota has been reached OR on 30th June 2026, whichever comes first.

If you are unable to access the registration form, registrations are now closed.

Our resilience workstream partner, RAB Consultants, will be undertaking the Property Flood Resilience surveys.

Surveys will commence in June 2026 and take place throughout the summer. Once registered you will see a message confirming the registration was successful.

If you have not received this message, your registration may not have been successful. Either complete the form again, or e-mail hello@projectgroundwater.co.uk for support.

RAB Consultants will subsequently be in touch during Summer 2026 to arrange your survey appointment. Please do not worry if you do not hear from RAB immediately, as surveys need to be scheduled around other workloads, and the surveys will be taking place over several months.

Those who have had a Survey will receive a report, which will include an assessment and recommendations on which Property Flood Resilience measure may be suitable and effective for their property. By having a survey and report undertaken there is no further commitment or requirement to take forward any of the recommended options.

The project has appointed a contractor to install measures at a select number of properties who had surveys completed during the initial phase. These properties have been selected based on their groundwater risks and/or opportunities for innovation. All residents who received a survey during the initial phase have received communication advising whether their property has or has not been selected to receive funding for the installation of measures.

Given the project timescales, which is due to end in March 2027, and availability of funding, no further properties will be offered funded measures following the additional surveys. The reports produced can be provided to a specialist installation contractor to take forward measures privately, should you wish.