Areas Benefiting from Flood Defence Recondition Schemes in England and Wales

HISTORIC DATASET containing spatial polygons for areas forecast to benefit from new or improved flood defence projects over a five-year Medium Term Plan. The Environment Agency supplies this data to support flood insurance agreements, attributing the number of households and land areas contributing to government outcome measures. Funding allocation for the first financial year is included, with indicative figures for the following four years.

Use Cases

• Mapping projected benefits of flood defence investments based on spatial polygon data.
• Analyzing funding allocation for flood defence projects based on the first-year financial data.
• Assessing the scale of flood risk interventions based on the inclusion criteria for projects over £100k.
• Supporting insurance risk modeling based on areas defined for revised joint Statement of Principles.

Strengths

• Includes all Environment Agency, Local Authority, and Internal Drainage Board projects over £100k for England and Wales.
• Attributes the number of households and areas of land contributing to DEFRA's Outcome Measures.
• Contains data for a planned five-year Medium Term Plan, with annual updates indicated.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Funding for years two through five is indicative and not guaranteed, limiting financial analysis.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency, supplied via the Government Digital Service on eu_open_data.

Collection Method

Spatial data compilation for planned flood defence schemes meeting specific investment criteria.

Time Range

Covers a rolling five-year Medium Term Plan, with data from 2015 confirmed.

Freshness

Update frequency is suggested to be annual, but last update date is unknown.

Geography

England and Wales.