INFORMATION ON PREPARING FOR FLOODING
- Parish Flood Plan – 2026 – Updated January 2026
- Check with the Environment Agency for Flooding near you
- HCC Community Toolkit to help in planning, preparing and managing the risk of flooding
- Parish Flood Plan – (useful contact details sheet only)
USEFUL MAPS
- Copythorne PC – Main Rivers – Copythorne North
- Copythorne PC – Main Rivers – Copythorne South
- Copythorne PC – Location of Flooding hotspots
INFORMATION FROM HCC (the “Lead Local Flood Authority”)
- HCC – Catchment Approach to Flood Risk Management
Copythorne is within the Test Lower Catchment - HCC – How to Report Flooding
- HCC – Flood Risk Management Guidance for Landowners
- HCC – Have produced a useful video (available via the following “YouTube” link) outlining maintenance responsibilities for watercourses.
- HCC – Guide to Ordinary Watercourse Consenting (please note some links in document may be out of date)
- Flooding and Drainage (your responsibilities as a landowner)
INFORMATION FROM THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
- Environment Agency – Your Watercourse: Rights and Roles
- EA Guide to rights and responsibilities of riverside ownership
- Check if you need to apply for an Environmental Permit for work (including tree maintenance) near a main river:- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/flood-risk-activities-environmental-permits
OTHER DOCUMENTS
Comments received from a resident regarding the 2024 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment commissioned by Portsmouth City Council for NFDC, NFNPA (and others) and the Parish Council’s response to those comments (January 2026). Comments made for Flooding Advisory Committee meeting – Tuesday 20th January 2026
- Copythorne Parish Council supports the work of the Brockenhurst and New Forest Flood Action Group on the use of Natural Flood Management measures
- The Use of Non Return Valves as a household flooding prevention measure (as reported at the Flooding Advisory Committee meeting on July 21st 2026)
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS
- HCC Members Briefing on
recentflooding – Jan 2024 - HCC Flood & Water Management Team – Copythorne South Bartley Water (“The Bartley Report”) – Produced October 2021 with amendments July 2022
- HCC Flood & Water Management Team – Copythorne Village Flood Risk Investigation Report (December 2021 revision)
- NFDC Bartley Flood Relief Scheme Project Appraisal Report 2005