Stroud District Council with the other five district's and the County in Gloucestershire have worked together to produce a Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA). The SFRA identifies levels of flood risk from all sources of flooding within the District. The assessment will be used to inform the emerging Local Development Framement and as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications.
This work allows the flood risk vulnerability and flood zone compatibility to be examined using the Sequential Test set out in PPS 25 "Development and Flood Risk". Further work such as a Level 2 SFRA will be carried out in order to provide a detailed assessment of the risk of flooding from non-fluvial sources in areas where new development is proposed. It will also be required where the need to apply the exception test is identified. A level 2 SFRA involves a more detailed review of flood hazard (flood probability, flood depth, flood velocity, rate of onset of flooding) taking into account the presence of flood risk management measures such as flood defences. They can also inform the level of detail required for site-specific Flood Risk Assessments (FRA's) by developers.
Countywide information on the SFRA can be found at http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=17247
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