Metadata

Environment Agency Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 2

Title

FloodZone2

Alternative Title

FZ2

Dataset Language

eng

Abstract

The Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) includes several layers of information. This dataset covers Flood Zone 2 and should not be used without Flood Zone 3.
It is our best estimate of the areas of land at risk of flooding, when the presence of flood defences are ignored and covers land between Zone 3 and the extent of the flooding from rivers or the sea with a 1 in 1000 (0.1%) chance of flooding each year.
This dataset also includes those areas defined in Flood Zone 3. This dataset is designed to support flood risk assessments in line with Planning Practice Guidance ;
and raise awareness of the likelihood of flooding to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. The information provided is largely based on modelled data and is therefore indicative rather than specific. Locations may also be at risk from other sources of flooding, such as high groundwater levels, overland run off from heavy rain, or failure of infrastructure such as sewers and storm drains.
The information indicates the flood risk to areas of land and is not sufficiently detailed to show whether an individual property is at risk of flooding, therefore properties may not always face the same chance of flooding as the areas that surround them.
This is because we do not hold details about properties and their floor levels. Information on flood depth, speed or volume of flow is not included.
Attribution statement:
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2018. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100024198

Topic Category

environment

Keyword

Keyword Value: Flood, Zone, 3, Planning, Environment Agency, Open Data
Originating Controlled Vocabulary: GEMET - INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes (GEMET)
Originating Controlled Vocabulary Citation: 2008-01-01

Temporal Extent

from -2004-01-01 to -2021-05-05

Dataset Reference Date

Date: 2010-01-2021-05
Date Type: revision

Lineage

Environment Agency release the whole dataset quarterly but only update it in locations where new information is available
IPR:
Product:
Date:

Extent

Hertfordshire County + 5 km

Vertical Extent

-

Spatial Reference System

OSGB36 - National Grid of Great Britain

Spatial Resolution

1m

Resource Locator

protocol: DSP:ESRI
name: FloodMapForPlanningRiversAndSeaFloodZone3_Download
description: Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 3 Download WMS
protocol: WMS name: FloodMapForPlanningRiversAndSeaFloodZone3_WMS description: Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 3 WM WFS
protocol: WFS name: FloodMapForPlanningRiversAndSeaFloodZone3_WFS description: Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 3 WFS Support
protocol: http:// name: DSP_CUSTOMER_FORUM description: Defra Data Services Platform Customer Forum LINK
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link name: Flood_Map_for_Planning_Rivers_and_Sea_Flood_Zone_3_ESRI_REST_Endpoint description: Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) - Flood Zone 3 - ESRI REST Endpoint

Layerfile for use by HCC internal staff: J:\Geodata\EnvAgncy\Flood_Map\

Format

ESRI/SDE

Responsible Organisation

Environment Agency
Email :floodmapping@environment-agency.gov.uk
Role: Resource Provider, Custodian, Owner, Distributor, Originator, Point of Contact, Processor, Publisher, Author.

Limitations on Public Access

no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified. Open Government Licence

Use Constraints

Open Government Licence

This data is supplied without guarantee or any warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness, and is provided as is, excluding any warranties of any
kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law,including (but not limited to) satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.

Additional information

Resource Identifier

Conformity

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services.
2010-12-08
notEvaluated
Re-designing HCC Data for INSPIRE not done

Equivalent scale

Bounding box

0.76, 0.22, 51.58, 52.10

Quality scope

Dataset

Spatial representation type

vector

Character encoding

UTF-8

Data quality

-

Maintenance information

maintenance and update frequency: quarterly

update scope:feature

maintenance note: updates available quarterly from LINK

Metadata update date

-2021-05

Metadata Language

English

Metadata Point of Contact

Environment Agency
Email :metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk

Resource Type

6 Dataset

File Identifier

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Parent identifier

-

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Review date

-

Attributes

Name	Long Name	Description

OSGB36 National Grid Bounding Coordinates

West: 486000 East: 552000 North: 245000 South: 189000

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