Flood Risk Areas

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Environment Agency
Last updated:
27 November 2023
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Summary

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Flood Risk Areas identify locations where there is believed to be significant flood risk. The EU Floods Directive refers to Flood Risk Areas as 'Areas of Potentially Significant Flood Risk' (APSFR).

Flood Risk Areas have been defined by the Environment Agency (main rivers and the sea) and Lead Local Flood Authorities (surface water). Other sources of flooding are not covered. This dataset includes Flood Risk Areas defined for both Cycle 1 (December 2011) and Cycle 2 (December 2018).

The criteria used to determine significance are explained in supporting guidance document supplied with this data.

Flood Risk Areas determine where Flood Hazard and Risk Maps and Flood Risk Management Plans must subsequently be produced to meet obligations under the EU Floods Directive.

INFORMATION WARNING

Flood Risk Areas are designed to meet the needs of the European Floods Directive. They are designed for broad planning purposes only and are not appropriate for any other type of flood mapping. Other flood mapping is available which is more appropriate to showing localised flood risk. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

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FloodRiskAreas_WFS N/A 27 November 2023 Not available
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Guidance_Flood_Risk_Areas_v1.pdf PDF 27 November 2023 Not available
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FloodRiskAreas-SHP.zip ZIP 27 November 2023 Not available
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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-11-22
Access contraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
f3d63ec5-a21a-49fb-803a-0fa0fb7238b6
Extent
Latitude: 55.816° to 49.943°
Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2018-12-22 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Environment Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
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