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Flood Risk Areas

Summary

This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA256. 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.

Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

asNeeded

Lineage

Could be based on any LLFA ((Lead Local Flood Authority) information included in their PFRA (Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment)

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

f3d63ec5-a21a-49fb-803a-0fa0fb7238b6


Published by

Environment Agency

Contact publisher

Defra Data Services Forum

Dataset reference dates

Creation date

N/A

Revision date

22 December 2018

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 01 January 2011

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Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
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Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
Data Version.txtTXTDownload
FloodRiskAreas-FGDB.zipZIPDownload
FloodRiskAreas-GeoJSON.zipZIPDownload
FloodRiskAreas-GML.zipZIPDownload
FloodRiskAreas-KML.zipZIPDownload
FloodRiskAreas-MID_MIF.zipZIPDownload
FloodRiskAreas-SHP.zipZIPDownload
FloodRiskAreas-TAB.zipZIPDownload
Guidance_Flood_Risk_Areas_v1.pdfPDFDownload