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Flooding

  • What is a Flood Risk Assessment?
    December 4th 2018 in Blog, Featured, Property

    A Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) takes into account the risk and impact of flooding on the site and considers how the development may affect flooding in the local area. It also provides recommendations as to how the risk of flooding to the development can be mitigated. The National Planning Policy…

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  • Surface Water Management Plan: Better Mapping and Data is Key
    July 19th 2018 in Blog, Featured, Flooding

    The Government this week released its Surface Water Action Plan, aiming to tackle surface water flooding which affects up to 3.2 million properties in England. It seeks to bring our preparedness more closely into line with that from main rivers and the sea. We review the key points. Improving…

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  • Disgusting in Tunbridge Wells: Chaos as Surface Flooding hits
    July 13th 2018 in Flooding

    The Pantiles district of Tunbridge Wells in Kent is an attractive tiled street of shops and tea rooms that has been a popular tourist destination since Tudor times. Almost a year to the day, the same area has been hit by flash surface flooding, causing substantial damage to the town’s vital…

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  • Double Trouble: Two Shropshire Floods in Two Days
    June 4th 2018 in Blog, Flooding

    Shropshire bore the brunt of two severe flash floods that came in quick succession to the county affecting town and countryside alike. We review events and show that flooding is not all about rivers. The plume of humid, moist air that was drawn up from France last week was more reminiscent of July…

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  • Basement Groundwater Flood Risk: Key issue for London Planning Applications
    May 24th 2018 in Blog, Flooding, GW5, Property

    Recent research by Newcastle University has revealed the dramatic increase in planning applications for basement developments in West London. But could these huge investments be affected by growing groundwater flooding risk in the future? From 2008 to 2017, some 4,650 basements have been approved,…

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  • 25 Year Environment Plan: Commit to specific plans on SuDS
    March 9th 2018 in Blog, Flooding, SuDS

    The Government launched its 25 year Environment Plan with much fanfare last month seeking to prove that it can talk about other things than Brexit.  We review what it means for flood management and specifically prospects for policy changes on sustainable drainage (SuDS.) The lofty aim of the…

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  • CPD webinar: An introduction to Flood Risk Assessments – 16th May ’18
    February 13th 2018 in CPD, Flooding, Property

    Join our webinar: An introduction to Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) for property professionals 16 May 2018, 12:00pm-1:00pm. Who should sign up Property developers, planners, architects – anyone involved in the process of property transactions, management and development. What will be covered?…

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  • Surface Water Management 2017 conference: Removing Barriers To SuDS Implementation
    November 17th 2017 in Blog, Flooding, SuDS

    On Wednesday 20th September, GeoSmart’s Director Dr Paul Ellis presented in London at the CIWEM conference ‘Surface Water Management 2017’, which provided an update on the context, scale and impact of surface water flooding, advances in modelling and the key barriers to delivering SuDS.…

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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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  • EFRA committee review: time to act on SuDS
    June 1st 2017 in Blog, Flooding, Property, SuDS

    We were delighted to contribute to the consultation published in a recent report (26 April 2017) by the EFRA Committee inquiry into how effectively the Government has implemented the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. Specifically, we are focussed on further developments with the long overdue…

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