Useful links and information

If you have been asked to undertake a Flood Risk Assessment as part of your planning process you may be interested in some of the information compiled here. Please note that we try and keep this up to date, but sometimes things change and the latest versions may not always be linked. These links will open a new tab in your web browser.

If you would like to contact us for more information about a Flood Risk Assessment or flood modelling query, help with mapping or training in QGIS, or support for improving workflows and task automation we would be happy to have a no obligation discussion.

Review your flood risk:

If you would like to review the current risk from a range of potential flooding mechanisms at your property you can do so online through the flood warning information service here: Long term flood risk information.
Simply enter your postcode to view reservoir, river and surface water risk.

If you are in Wales you should use the Long term flood risk maps, where you can view different levels of detail. When the map opens choose options > Show Map Layers to select the data you'd like to view.

If you are in a flood risk area and would like to keep track of flood warnings you can get up to date information from the Flood warnings for England page. If you're in Wales you can use the Check Flood Warnings tool from Natural Resource Wales.

Planning guidance:

If you are applying for planning permission and would like more information about what is involved in a Flood Risk Assessment you can view the governments guidance here: Flood Risk Assessments for applying for planning permission.

You can also view the flood map for planning flood zone map.

If you are in Wales then you can review the Development and Flood Risk guidance provided by Natural Resource Wales. You might also be interested in the Development Advice Map showing flood zones.

There is also different guidance for the planning process in Wales. These include the Planning Policy Wales guidance and the Technical Advice Note (TAN) 15.

Useful Software

The majority of our geospatial analysis and mapping work is now done with the open source QGIS GIS software. It's freely availble to download and can be used to view geospatial data such as Shapefiles.
There are also a number of training materials links on their website if you are interested in learning how to use it.

We do the majority of our software development work in the Python programming language if you're interested in looking into it.