Do you need information for a planning application?

The rivers, sea and surface water information on this service is not suitable for flood risk assessments.

Use the flood risk information for planning service if you need information to support a planning application.

Reservoir flood risk information on the long term flood risk map can be used to support planning applications.

Carry on to the long term flood risk map.

Why the rivers, sea and surface water information is not suitable

The long term flood risk service estimates how likely flooding is. It takes flood defences into account and is meant to help people understand overall risk.

The flood risk for planning service uses a fixed set of rules to decide if an area is at risk. It ignores the benefit of any existing flood defences.

This is because flood defences could fail in the future, and planning needs to consider what might happen if they do.

Because the services answer different questions, the maps may show different results.