Planning for floods

Floods are our most damaging and frequent natural hazard. Strategic flood risk assessments give the essential overview needed to guide development choices.

Given the significance of floods as a hazard, flood risk assessment is crucial to spatial planning, determining both …

It’s a rollercoaster!

Managing the risk of coastal flooding is a hugely complex challenge. Greater statistical analysis is needed to guide design standards for defences.

A sea of troubles

Communities have made their homes in coastal locations around the UK for centuries. They …

Once more unto the breach

Llanfairfechan and the Kinmel Bay area have been flooded in recent decades, with coastal defences overwhelmed. WHS studied the risks for the future.

Please click here to watch a video of the flooding of Towyn, North Wales in 1990:

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