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Your Flood Risk Assessment & Drainage Strategy, ready in minutes — not weeks

Enter your site address and a few details. Our engine pulls every Environment Agency flood dataset for your site, draws the flood maps, runs the SuDS drainage calculations and writes the full professional report your planning application needs.

✅ 9,000+ flood risk assessments completed 🇬🇧 England — all local authorities 📐 EA FRA template (March 2025) 📘 NPPF & PPG compliant 💧 SuDS to CIRIA C753
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What you get

A complete, professional A3 document — the same structure the Environment Agency publishes for planning FRAs
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Official flood maps of your site

Flood Zones 2 & 3, surface water risk, historic flooding, reservoir extents and exceedance flow routes — every map drawn around your site with a red line boundary, ready for the council.

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All sources assessed

Rivers & sea, surface water, groundwater, sewers, reservoirs and artificial sources, with climate change allowances over the lifetime of your development — exactly what the checklist asks for.

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SuDS drainage strategy

Runoff rates, attenuation storage, discharge hierarchy, drainage schematic, water quality, exceedance routing and a maintenance schedule — sized from your roof and garden areas.

How it works

Three steps — around five minutes of your time
1

Tell us about your site

Full address, what you're building, and approximate roof / garden / paving areas. That's it — no technical knowledge needed.

2

We build your report

Live Environment Agency data is fetched for your exact location, maps are drawn, drainage is calculated and the full report is written and quality-polished automatically.

3

Download

Your free report is ready in minutes — review every page, map and calculation and download it immediately.

What's inside your report

A ~10-page A3 professional document following the Environment Agency's own FRA template structure
Executive summaryThe whole assessment on one page, with a key flood risk information table for quick officer review.
Site & development descriptionYour address, grid reference, planning authority, area schedule and a site location plan with red line boundary.
Planning policy contextNPPF & PPG requirements — plus your council's own Local Plan flood policies and SFRA, researched automatically for your site.
Assessment of all flood sourcesRivers & sea, surface water, groundwater, sewers, reservoirs, historic flooding and artificial sources — with official flood maps of your site.
Climate changeEnvironment Agency allowances applied over the full lifetime of your development.
Sequential & Exception TestsThe planning tests addressed for your flood zone and development type.
Avoid · Control · Mitigate · ManageFloor levels, flow routes, flood-resilient construction, safe access, warnings and evacuation planning.
SuDS drainage strategyRunoff rates, attenuation storage, drain-down, interception, water quality, a drainage schematic and an exceedance flow route map.
Maintenance scheduleComponent-by-component upkeep table councils can secure by condition.
Data sources & basisEvery dataset used, with publisher, licence and the date it was accessed for your site.

Built on official data

Fetched live for your exact site at the moment your report is created
EA Flood Map for Planning — Flood Zones 2 & 3 EA Risk of Flooding from Surface Water EA Historic Flood Map & Recorded Outlines EA Reservoir Flood Extents EA Flood Defences & Main Rivers EA Flood Warning Coverage Ordnance Survey grid referencing Ground elevation modelling Your council's Local Plan & SFRA

Who it's for

Made for the applications councils ask FRAs for every day
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Householder extensions

Extensions and alterations where the council's validation checklist asks for a flood risk assessment or drainage statement — the most common reason applications stall.

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New dwellings & small schemes

Single plots and small developments needing a full FRA with SuDS strategy, including sites in Flood Zone 1 over the local threshold or with surface water risk.

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Flood Zone 2 & 3 sites

The report identifies your zone, applies PPG Table 2 compatibility, addresses the Sequential and Exception Tests and sets floor levels to Environment Agency standing advice.

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Compliance

Written to the standards councils and the Environment Agency expect
Which developments is this suitable for?

Householder extensions, new dwellings and other minor/small-scale applications across England. The report assesses every flood source and includes the surface water drainage statement local authorities ask for. For large or complex schemes in high-risk zones requiring hydraulic modelling, a bespoke consultancy appointment may be more appropriate.

What standards does the report follow?

The Environment Agency's Flood Risk Assessment template (March 2025), the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Practice Guidance (including the site-specific FRA checklist and Table 2 vulnerability compatibility), Environment Agency standing advice on floor levels and resilience, the Non-Statutory Technical Standards for SuDS and the CIRIA SuDS Manual (C753).

Where does the flood data come from?

Live from the Environment Agency's official open datasets at the moment your report is created: Flood Map for Planning (Flood Zones 2 & 3), Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, Historic Flood Map, Recorded Flood Outlines, reservoir flood extents, flood defences and statutory main rivers — plus flood warning coverage and ground levels. Every source and access date is listed inside the report.

What if my site is in Flood Zone 2 or 3?

The report identifies the zone, applies the correct vulnerability compatibility, addresses the Sequential and Exception Tests, and sets floor levels and resilience measures to Environment Agency standing advice.

Proven results

The numbers behind the service
9,214
Flood Risk Assessments completed
A track record you can lean on — thousands of reports prepared, checked and accepted by local planning authorities across the UK.
84%
Customer retention
Most of our work comes from returning clients and their recommendations. Clear advice, fair pricing and reports that do their job first time.
100%
Planning discharge rate
Every report is written to be accepted: instant generation, a free draft before you pay, and best value against any like-for-like quote.
🛡️We guarantee 100% success in discharging your condition. If the local planning authority rejects the report, send us their comments and we amend it free of charge — or refund you in full.

What our customers say

Reviews from applicants, architects and developers across the UK
5.0★★★★★Based on 232+ Google reviews
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James Whitfield
a week ago
★★★★★
Council asked for a flood risk assessment for our extension in Flood Zone 2. Had the report the same afternoon and the condition was discharged two weeks later. A fraction of the £1,200 quote we had from a consultancy.
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Sarah Okafor
2 weeks ago
★★★★★
The free draft meant I could check every page before paying. EA flood maps, the SuDS calculations, everything. Our planning officer accepted it without a single comment.
MD
Mark Davies
3 weeks ago
★★★★★
Used it for a six-house scheme partly in Zone 3. The sequential test section and the drainage strategy were exactly what the LPA wanted to see.
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Priya Sharma
a month ago
★★★★★
Genuinely impressed — typed the address and got a full report with flood maps of our actual site. Validation accepted it first time.
TH
Tom Hendricks
2 months ago
★★★★★
Our application had been stuck for weeks over surface water. This sorted it in a day. Wish I'd found it sooner.
RL
Rebecca Lawson
2 months ago
★★★★★
Looks like it came from a big consultancy — clear maps, proper references, greenfield runoff rates. Condition discharged, no questions.
DM
Daniel McAllister
3 months ago
★★★★★
Second time using the service, first was a client's barn conversion. Both went through planning without amendment.
CB
Chloe Bennett
4 months ago
★★★★★
As an architect I've now ordered five of these for clients. Consistent quality, and the price finally makes small schemes viable.
HN
Harry Nolan
5 months ago
★★★★★
Quoted three weeks by a local firm. Had this in my inbox within the hour and the council approved it. Can't argue with that.
EW
Emma Whitehouse
7 months ago
★★★★★
The discharge guarantee gave me the confidence to try it — didn't need it in the end, accepted first time. Brilliant service.

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