How to prepare a strategic flood risk assessment
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Withdrawn
Abstract
Details the information that local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
Document History
Superseded by: 10 April 2025 update. Last updated: 25 March 2025 - Amended to signpost new flood and coastal erosion risk data and provide advice on its use; added advice on maintaining SFRAs to ensure best use of new and emerging datasets; clarified the use of new flood risk data for mapping functional floodplain; and amended paragraph references to reflect December update to NPPF. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/local-planning-authorities-strategic-flood-risk-assessment and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 1 July 2013.
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Environment Agency
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