Fact file

£1bn required annually for flood defences in the UK.

2 million homes and buildings in areas at risk of flooding (NAO).

Ca 10% of total land in England at risk of flooding.

In Sweden, floating homes paid for the regeneration of a landfill bridge.

The development of flood-resistant structures in Holland has paid for new and improved flood defenses and made communities insurable.

Sustainable Floodplain Development

NGM's developments are not dependent on flood defences; furthermore they can assist with infrastructure costs when developing bridges and flood defences.

NGM can deliver entire communities that act as secondary flood defences by storing large quantities of flood waters, thereby reducing the flood risk and impact to adjacent communities.

NGM's solutions deliver:

• Lifetime homes
• Social aspects and sense of community (BRE)
• Renewables and energy savings
• Normal mortgages, insurance and building Guarantees available
• Eco-premium

NGM flood resistant home, can be situated on wrong side of a flood defence.

NGM developments provide secondary flood defences, alleviate pressure on flood defenses and reduce flood risk to adjacent areas.

	Flood-tolerant design* These buildings can be canter levered off the “wrong” side of a flood defence and help fund flood defences as well as providing much needed housing.
*images shown are examples only, not designed or constructed by NGM.	Example floodplain development The “can-float” flood resistant homes in Massbommel, Holland, have been such a success that a further 15 Dutch provinces have approved similar developments. A total of 1200 "can float" homes will be built by 2012. These homes are built on the wrong side of the flood defence. The development paid for the new flood defences which resulted in greatly reduced flood risk for the town of Maasbommel allowing the town's homes to be insurable following large floods in 1992 and 1995.
	Example floodplain development In the maps on the left the light blue area is a 1in 50 year flood experience. When these frequent floods occur the homes illustrated in grey experience flooding due to utilities backing up. This is a direct result of the lack of adequate flood water storage capacity. Please click the maps to view in greater detail.

The above proposed Master plan developed by NGM illustrates how to sustainably develop flood plains and mitigate the risks associated with the following:

• Costs of landfill
• Insurance cost of remediation works and development risk
• Insurance cost to end users
• Further flood storage/damage
• Further flood defences

The above master plan shows how to increase flood water storage capabilities using a mix of floating and flood-tolerant structures to develop a mixed-use community.

The benefits of working with the environment and enhancing it natural functions is clear to see, as it is sustainable and economical in the long term and taking further climatic changes into account. This is accomplished by excavating land and moving it to the outer boundary to provide access road and flood defence to the adjacent dwelling nearby. This development process creates new flood plain and additional flood storage for the protection of the town. The master plan illustrates a mixture of structures that can float full time, can flood during a flood and flood resistant buildings