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Areas susceptible to flooding from surface water

New data is now available to planners to help you identify areas that require further assessment as part of planning applications. We also need you to share data on past floods in your area with us.

From July 2009, new data will be available to planners, showing areas susceptible to flooding from surface water.

The main use of the data will be to highlight areas where the potential for flooding from surface water needs particular assessment and scrutiny within Strategic Flood Risk Assessments (SFRAs) / Strategic Flood Consequence Assessments (SFCAs) and Surface Water Management Plans (SWMPs).

Environment Agency Area Teams will be informing Local Planning Authorities directly of how to get this data. If you still need access, please get in touch with your planning liaison contact. Since this data is used under licence, we can only offer it to Local Planning Authorities. We are continuing to develop this data to make it more accurate in future.

We need your data on past floods

One of the ways we are improving our data is by collecting details about past floods. We need all professional partners, such as local authorities, to share this. Our local Flood Incident Management Teams have already asked Local Resilience Forum partners to do this, but if you still have other data, please get in touch.

Before submitting your data to our Flood Incident Management Teams, we need the following fields to be able to make good use of it:

  • spatial coordinates
  • the date of the record
  • flood source
  • flood source confidence
  • ownership details
  • sensitivity marking

If you do not have existing contacts in either your local Flood Incident Management or Planning Liaison Teams, call our National Customer Contact Centre, on 08708 506 506.