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Flood Risk Standing Advice for England - PPS25 National version 3.0

Flood risk is an issue that you need to consider if you are planning a new development, whether a home extension or something bigger, or even a change of use.

The Local Planning Authority (LPA) will make a decision on whether a development is suitable. The Environment Agency helps in this process by providing advice, either on a case by case basis or for lower risk development via a series of standard comments known as 'standing advice'.

This flood risk standing advice is valid from 24 January 2011.

Flood risk standing advice for applicants and agents

Planning applicants and their agents can follow the link below for advice on what to do when submitting a planning application and for guidance to help with this.

Flood risk standing advice for Local Planning Authorities

Local Planning Authority users can download our interactive tool to help you decide when to consult us, what the consultation should contain, and how to make a decision on lower risk sites.

Flood map

To make sense of this advice you need to know what flood zone the proposed development is in. You should use our flood maps to do this. LPAs should refer to the Environment Agency's flood map already supplied on CD. The dark blue area on a flood map is equivalent to flood zone 3 and the light blue area is equivalent to flood zone 2 (England only).

Feedback

If you have any comments on the contents of the flood risk standing advice please contact either your local Planning Liaison team (see the link below) or Paul Wheeler.

For further details or to request this information please contact either our National Customer Contact Centre (NCCC) on 0370 8506506 or email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk (Mon-Fri, 8am - 6pm).

You can also speak to your local External Relations team, which you can find at the link below: