Flood risk assessments: applying for planning permission
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Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- When you need a flood risk assessment
- When you need a sustainable drainage strategy and what to include
- Research the development site
- Access the right advice
- Get information about flood risk from rivers and the sea to help you to complete a FRA
- Product 1
- Product 3
- Product 4
- Product 5
- Product 6
- Product 7
- Product 8
- Choose the correct product
- Understand limitations of using existing models
- How to get or order the products
- Get information about other sources of flood risk to help you complete a flood risk assessment
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Flood risk assessments: applying for planning permission’ (updated 28 May 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026