Planning consideration

Flood risk zones

Areas at risk from flooding from rivers or the sea

• Design stage: On the platform
• Tags: local plan
• Datasets:
  • flood-risk-level
  • flood-risk-type
  • flood-risk-zone
• Frequency of updates: Quarterly
• Useful links:
  • Flood risk guidance
  • Flood risk zone 2 map (data.gov.uk)
• Discussion: Join the discussion on GitHub
• Last updated: 4 September 2024

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Is there any Flood risk zones data already available?

Yes

What Flood risk zones data is currently available?

• Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 2 (publisher: Environment Agency; coverage: National; licence: OGL; fields: FID;Shape;LAYER;TYPE)

Research

What other planning considerations does it interact with?

• Local plans - Flood risk zones are referenced a number of times in local plans, so we think that this consideration feeds into the process of creating a local plan.