Stroud District, like most of Gloucestershire suffered the effects of severe flooding in July 2007 and there have been more significant events since.
The Stroud Valleys Natural Flood Management project was established in May 2014 as a partnership between SDC, the Environment Agency and the local community as a response to the flooding. It has established an award winning reputation as an exemplar Natural Flood Management (NFM) project, delivering to date almost 700 NF