The Land Registry is flagging up the ability to obtain flood risk reports on properties in England or Wales to get a percentage chance of a location flooding in any one year.
The Land Registry holds records about most property or land sold in England or Wales since 1993, including the title register, title plan, title summary and flood risk indicator.
The Registry's Flood Risk Indicator gives information on how likely the land or property is to flood – it combines Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wale flood data with Land Registry property data to provide customers with a high level indication of whether a piece of land is at risk of flooding.
Anyone can apply to the Registry for a report, even if they don’t own the property in question.
The Flood Risk Indicator result is designed to increase awareness of the likelihood of flooding for any registered piece of land in England and Wales to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. The Indicator can also be used by those people who wish to apply for planning permission to see whether the site they plan to develop is in a flood risk area.
For rivers, detailed survey data information about the topography or ground surface is combined with information on flows.
For coastal areas, Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales takes detailed survey data and combines it with analysed sea level and wave data, allowing it to work out the water level at the coast and how the water could flood inland.
Where detailed mapping is unavailable, the Environment Agency have supplemented its data with national generalised modelling, which gives a consistent picture of flood risk for all rivers with a catchment size greater than 3 km² and the sea.
Applicants can search by address to find the owner, how far its general boundaries extend and whether it’s at risk of flooding. The flood report includes the percentage chance of a location flooding in any one year, based on predicted water levels and location, type and condition of flood defences.
Information provided in the reports matches the Environment Agency / Natural Resources Wales classification of flood risk categories. Applicants will need to search different registers if the property is in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
The fee for using the Flood Risk Indicator service is £10.80 (inc. VAT) per result.
Click here to access the Flood Risk Register.
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