Preparing a flood risk assessment: standing advice

Publication Year

2024

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides advice to help determine the need for following standard advice when preparing a flood risk assessment and what to do. Covers: when to follow standard advice, advice for minor extensions, standing advice for vulnerable developments, when the sequential test is needed and submitting the flood risk assessment.

Document History

Last updated: 23 August 2024 - Added 'where the Environment Agency should be consulted' to the 'When to follow standing advice' section. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/flood-risk-assessment-standing-advice 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: 1 April 2012.

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