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  • Increased Groundwater Flood Risk in England
    February 18th 2021 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, Groundwater Flood Forecasting, GW5, News

    By Jon Haycox: 18 February 2021 As of February 2021, groundwater levels are now high in many areas of England with properties on alert in Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire for the risk of groundwater flooding. GeoSmart Information are specialists in groundwater and are monitoring…

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  • Groundwater flooding in Winter 2019 & 2020 – a near miss
    October 5th 2020 in Blog, Climate change, Groundwater Flood Forecasting, GW5, News

    Groundwater flooding represents a significant part of the overall flood risk in the UK, but is widely missed as it results from subsurface flow processes that are not very well understood and hard to observe. This brief review of last Winter brings a useful illustration of the groundwater hazard. …

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  • Groundwater Flooding and Climate Change
    October 16th 2019 in Blog, Climate change, Featured, Flooding, GW5

    The UK’s climate is changing, and this will potentially increase the frequency, severity and extent of groundwater flooding. Businesses and individuals should take action to assess vulnerability and improve resilience if they are at risk to groundwater flooding and climate change. The first step…

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  • Flood Risk and Climate Change: Developers Must Respond to Greater Uncertainty
    December 4th 2018 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding

    The Met Office has provided its first major update on climate change in almost 10 years, warning of significant increases in rainfall, flood risk and coastal sea level rise in the decades ahead. This stark warning means planning authorities and communities will assess location for the long term on…

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  • GeoSmart partners with Centremaps to offer unique range of environmental reports and data to support sustainable development
    October 5th 2017 in Blog, Climate change, Contaminated land, Flooding, SuDS

    GeoSmart Information, the innovative environmental reports, data and services provider, has teamed up with Centremaps, to provide flooding and drainage data on its geospatial portal. The portal, called CentremapsLive, offers architects and planning consultants Ordnance Survey MasterMap extracts,…

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  • Climate Change and UK Infrastructure: “A Cascade of Risks”
    July 13th 2016 in Blog, Climate change

    In a 2,000-page report, the Climate Change Committee outlines clearly that the UK is ill-prepared for the impact of long term climate change on our communities. Critical infrastructure could be destroyed by flooding, while soil quality will deplete through poor, overly intensive farming and land…

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  • Castle Debate: Agriculture and Climate Change – Impacts and Solutions
    June 14th 2016 in Blog, Climate change

    GeoSmart was once again was proud to support another in a fascinating series of Castle Debates – this time on the uneasy relationship between agriculture and climate change. Farming generates greenhouse gases throughout its supply chain, yet it received little or no mention at the November 2015…

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  • Flood zones explained
    March 24th 2016 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, Property

    The Environment Agency (EA) has devised a set of flood zones for guidance by developers, councils and communities to explain the probability of river and sea flooding, ignoring the presence of flood defences. Flood zones are shown on the EA’s Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), as…

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  • House of Lords urge more proactive SuDS guidance
    February 26th 2016 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, Groundwater Flood Forecasting

    In the second of two consecutive blogs, we summarise the key outputs from the House of Lords National Policy for the Built Environment Committee meeting. Turning to the impact of climate change, the committee was fully behind the need for a more proactive approach to the provision of Sustainable…

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  • Castle Debates: Meeting the need for more housing without environmental damage
    February 11th 2016 in Blog, Climate change, Flooding, SuDS

    We were delighted to support and speak at the latest Castle Debates event, held at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) head office in Parliament Square. The debate focused on the supply and demand for housing, issues and innovations to overcome the need for inevitable development and…

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Latest Articles

  • Increased Groundwater Flood Risk in England
  • CPD webinar: Environmental Information for Masterplanning – 7th April 2021
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  • CPD webinar: Flood Risk Assessments: A Guide for Architects and Planners – 3rd March 2021
  • CPD webinar: Environmental Information for Masterplanning – 3rd February 2021

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