Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment Map for South West River Basin District

Environment Agency's Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment Map (Cycle 2) for the South West River Basin District contains background information for understanding flood risk. The dataset includes an interactive map showing the river basin district, component river basins, coastline, land use, and topography layers. It supports the national Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment for England report required under the Flood Risk Regulations (2009).

Use Cases

• Assess regional flood hazards based on river basin and topography layers.
• Model land use impacts on flood risk based on the land use layer.
• Support regulatory reporting for flood risk assessments based on the Flood Risk Regulations (2009).
• Visualize the spatial relationship between coastlines and flood zones based on the map layers.

Strengths

• Supports a national regulatory report required by the Flood Risk Regulations (2009).
• Includes multiple geospatial layers: river basins, coastline, land use, and topography.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-06 07:16:30.781509; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South West River Basin District, England