Case studies
Shared experiences of community resilience planning
Learn from others about how they are supporting local community resilience in Kent and Medway.
If you have a case study or example you would like to share about how you are helping your community to become better prepared for the impacts of emergencies please email the details to krfcommunityresilience@kent.fire-uk.org
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Bough Beech broadband and phone line outage leads to a rethink on local resilience
Do you need help to create your parish council community resilience plan?
This case study features Chiddingstone Parish Councillor Kerry Outlaw discussing how the entire village of Bough Beech in rural west Kent was impacted by an internet and land line phone outage for 11 days following a road traffic collision.
Cllr Outlaw outlines the challenges it placed on this rural community and what they learned. She also highlights how helpful it would have been to have had a community resilience plan in place to support residents during this incident.
It has since prompted a pilot project to create a community resilience plan across a cluster of neighbouring parishes, looking at jointly planning for all different types of potential risks and emergencies that could impact the area.
Visit our community resilience planning page for guidance and templates here
Or email our team for support at KRFcommunityresilience@kent.fire-uk.org