Flood risk assessment

Flooding in the UK has been in the news recently particularly since the severe floods of winter 2014. Such events are often attributed to changing weather patterns due to climate change. This in part is true but for many cases it has been the lack of consideration of flooding during the development process that has resulted in problems. Development on areas classified as ‘functional floodplain’ has resulted in a large number of properties at high risk of flooding. Also the effect of development elsewhere in the catchment on ‘downstream’ developments has also been neglected. Climate change predictions, suggest that flood events will become more prevalent and more severe. With this in mind legislation has tightened in order to protect future development.

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