Section 165(1D)

In this section “flood risk management work” means anything done— to maintain existing works (including buildings or structures) including cleansing, repairing or otherwise maintaining the efficiency of an existing watercourse or drainage work; to operate existing works (such as sluicegates or pumps); to improve existing works (including buildings or structures) including anything done to deepen, widen, straighten or otherwise improve an existing watercourse, to remove or alter mill dams, weirs or other obstructions to watercourses, or to raise, widen or otherwise improve a drainage work; to construct or repair new works (including buildings, structures, watercourses, drainage works and machinery); for the purpose of maintaining or restoring natural processes; to monitor, investigate or survey a location or a natural process; to reduce or increase the level of water in a place; to alter or remove works.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30