Flood map data for the flood zone of a minor watercourse in Nottinghamshire restricts the number of properties in a planned 87-unit housing development.
Flood map data used for planning purposes is sometimes based on coarse modelling techniques that can …
An 80-unit residential development is proposed for a factory site prone to groundwater-dominated river flooding in Wiltshire. Barriers to planning consent have left the client on the verge of dropping the development.
Several years of modelling analysis and negotiation with …
The Huntingdon racecourse and hotel are on the floodplain of the Alconbury Brook and prone regular floods. Access to the site and facilities is jeopardised.
A plan to raise the access road was strongly opposed by the Environment Agency (EA) …
130 dwellings on 4.5 hectares of largely greenfield land in Solihull. A natural watercourse crosses the site and flows into a narrow culvert under a local road, making it prone to flooding.
Planning conditions for development included:
Issued: April 2016
Development invariably affects the local movement of water, particularly in rural, upland and river locations. Measures to reduce the impact of development in these challenging environments, as elsewhere, must be well-founded, practical and cost effective.
WHS is …
Sometimes our work is focused on a single house.
A house by a river, in a gorge.
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In October 2012, the stream, the Ceres Burn, became blocked. In heavy flows, debris had gathered at a weir and footbridge, and …
New guidance from the Environment Agency requires all new development and local plans to take increased flood risk into account, due to climate change, and to demonstrate how the risk will be managed.
Published in February 2016, the guidance is …