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Flood Map for Planning - Flood Zones<\/SPAN><\/P>

The Flood Map for Planning Service includes several layers of information. This includes the Flood Zones data which shows the extent of land at present day risk of flooding from rivers and the sea, ignoring the benefits of defences, for the following scenarios:<\/SPAN><\/P>

\u2022 Flood Zone 1 \u2013 Land having a less than 0.1% (1 in 1000) annual probability of flooding.<\/SPAN><\/P>

\u2022 Flood Zone 2 \u2013 Land having between 0.1% - 1% (1 in 100 to 1 in 1000) annual probability of flooding from rivers or between 0.1% - 0.5% (1 in 200 to 1 in 1000) annual probability of flooding from the sea, and accepted recorded flood outlines .<\/SPAN><\/P>

\u2022 Flood Zone 3 \u2013 Areas shown to be at a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual probability of flooding from rivers or 0.5% (1 in 200) or greater annual probability of flooding from the sea.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Flood Zone 1 is not shown in this dataset, but covers all areas not contained within Flood Zones 2 and 3.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) use the Flood Zones to determine if they must consult the Environment Agency on planning applications. They are also used to determine if development is incompatible and whether development is subject to the exception test. The Flood Zones are one of several flood risk datasets used to determine the need for planning applications to be supported by a Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) and subject to the sequential test.<\/SPAN><\/P>

The Flood Zones are a composite dataset including national and local modelled data, and information from past floods.<\/SPAN><\/P>

The Flood Zones are designed to only give an indication of flood risk to an area of land and are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk of flooding. This is because we cannot know all the details about each property.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Use limitation statement<\/SPAN><\/P>

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Licence<\/SPAN><\/P>

Open Government Licence<\/SPAN><\/P>

Attribution statement<\/SPAN><\/P>

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