Flood Risk Assessments
What we provide
With the predicted increase in magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change it has never been more important to ensure that a development appropriately considers flood risk. The major risks of flooding arise from rivers and the sea, surface water runoff, groundwater, artificial water bodies and sewers.
We clinically analyse all the sources of flood risk and ensure that a development is safe and protected. We can undertake a variety of modelling exercises and detailed analysis to prove that a development can be kept safe, including:
- Modelling minor watercourses to identify flow rates and velocities.
- Reviewing extents of flooding and the impact on the proposed development.
- How a development can be kept safe, including where development is located in a flood zone.
- Advising on the appropriateness of a development type for the location it is proposed.
- Analysing safe access and egress routes.
- Providing overland flow analysis and flow routing.
- Preparing site specific hydraulic models.
- Designing SuDS features to prevent flooding onsite or further downstream.
We incorporate the advice of the EA, CIRIA and the WRc as well as the District and County Council to procure our reports, whilst still ensuring that plans work in the best interest of our clients and future occupiers.
Our Flood Risk Assessments are robust and are an essential for developments over 1 hectare in Flood Zone 1, under 1 hectare and in Flood Zone 1 (as per the flood map for planning) but subject to other potential forms of flooding, such as flooding from reservoirs or surface water sewers, or for developments located in Flood Zones 2 and 3.
