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Broad Level Flood Risk Assessment

Flooding is an important factor that influences both development control decisions and development plan allocations. The natural process of flooding is often hard to predict, and although flooding events are infrequent within the county borough, flooding can threaten human life as well as cause extensive damage to property, general disarray and trauma for those affected. Flood risk is therefore a key issue for the forthcoming LDP to address.

Background Paper 13 – Broad Level Flood Risk Assessment, forms a Broad Level Assessment identifying the national policy context for flood risk and how the precautionary principle advocated in national planning guidance to avoid development in the flood plain has been embraced in the LDP site selection process. The paper identifies the wealth of information the Council has on a site-specific basis identifying where the consequences of flooding can be managed as well as setting out the justification for the inclusion of a small number of sites within flood risk areas.

adobe logo Background Paper 13 – Broad Level Flood Risk Assessment (PDF 247kb)

adobe logo Strategic Flood Consequence Assessment, Navigation Colliery, Crumlin (PDF 10.0mb)

adobe logo Strategic Flood Consequence Assessment, St Ilan School (PDF 5.6mb)