Flood Risk Assessments

Scott White and Hookins regularly undertake FRAs for a range of developments, from individual dwellings to large-scale commercial schemes.

Our engineers are fully conversant with current legislation and the latest research in flood management techniques and offer the following solutions:

• Preparation of flood risk assessments
• Drainage assessments
• Assessment of current and future risks
• Modelling flood risk
• Design of flood alleviation schemes
• Design of Sustainable Drainage Systems

A significant proportion of the UK is at risk of tidal, river or groundwater flooding.

Flood Risk Assessments (FRA) are now required for many Planning Applications in England, ensuring compliance with Planning Policy Statement 25 (PPS25). Therefore it is imperative that developments satisfy the recommendations of the Environment Agency (EA) requiring adequate mitigation measures to ensure that a development is sustainable and safe in terms of flood risk.

Flood Risk Assessment, as part of the planning process, ensures that developers are aware. Managing flood risk is an important part of achieving sustainable development.

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) have a key role to play in flood management for new (and existing) developments. All types of land use change have an impact on the natural hydrological cycle and any development should not increase flood risk.