More than £400,000 is to be invested to protect the flood-prone Lydd and Hythe Ranges.

A council report reveals that Lydd Ranges will get £235,000 and Hythe £167,000 with work for both protections schemes taking place in five years’ time.

Both sites were last month branded as under severe threat of flooding by the Ministry of Defence but were still needed as military training grounds.

A report to Shepway District Council’s community scrutiny sub-committee on Monday March 24said: “It is understood that funding has been approved. The Environment Agency plans show construction commencing for both schemes in 2018/19.”

It added that the EA would seek a funding contribution from the MoD.

The officer’s report also said that work was due to start in the next few months on a rock groyne at Greatstone following the approvement of payment.

The report overall reviews the role of the district’s flood working group in the wake of this winter’s mass of storms and record rainfall. Parts of the country, such as the Somerset Levels, were underwater for weeks.

The officers wrote: “Shepway has been relatively fortunate with only minor inconvenience to residents.”

It adds there were isolated cases of flooding in areas such as Lydd, Greatstone and St Mary’s Bay but there were only two reports of water pouring inside properties, in Dymchurch and Lydd.

Sandbags were placed in several parts of the district, particularly in Lyminge and Elham after the Nailbourne river burst its banks and threatened to flood homes there.

It added that there are a number of protection schemes on the Environment Agency’s medium-term plans such as beaches from Hythe to Folkestone and Greatstone Dunes.

The report warns that there is still a risk of flooding as government-funded protection schemes have yet to come through.

It says: “The district continues to face the risk of flooding, and in particular tidal flooding, as central government funded schemes to protect Romney Marsh are still to come to fruition.”