Flood risk assessments: climate change allowances
Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Abstract
Explains when and how climate change allowances should be used in flood risk assessments.
History
Last updated: 24 May 2024 - Clarified in section 'How to use the peak rainfall intensity allowances': surface water flood mapping in small catchments (less than 5 square kilometres) and modelling large areas (larger than 5 square kilometres). Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/flood-risk-assessments-climate-change-allowances 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: 19 February 2016.
Subjects
- Environmental planning/land
- Flood management
- Planning and development
Publisher History
The Environment Agency is responsible for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. They publish a range of technical guidance, reports, policies and research material to promote a cleaner and healthier place to live in.
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