Why Choose Aegaea For Your Flood Risk Services?

We have experience across a full range of schemes and have successfully delivered for individuals, consultancies, and national house builders. We have a team of in-house technical experts on policy, flood modelling, and drainage who will be ready to help you.

Aegaea is a team of experts who can help you understand your requirements and obligations and plan your development to its fullest potential.

We offer fully compliant flood risk assessments for developments of any size, from small to hundreds of houses.

FRA: From Policy To Production

Aegaea uses the Environment Agency, Local Authority, and detailed model data to undertake your flood risk assessment.

We consult with all the relevant authorities to understand the potential risks to your site and what we might be able to do to mitigate them.

We cover flood risk from rivers and the sea, surface water, groundwater, reservoir inundation, and risk from other sources like raised canals and defences. We combine all of this into a single report that can be combined with a drainage and SuDS strategy to give you the best possible chance of planning permission and the best possible assessment of risk.

Why do we do it this way? We follow the policy and requirements, then use our industry experience and knowledge of local regions to ensure that we get you the right answer. We do this all for a highly competitive price, with no “one size fits all” quotes.

UK planning policies state that you will require a flood risk assessment (FRA) under certain circumstances.

​These are largely if:

• you are applying in an area where flooding has happened previously
• there is a risk to your proposal from flooding
• your development is over a certain size (1ha)
• or if there is a change of use to a more vulnerable development type (for example from commercial to residential).​

There are other reasons as well, but those are the primary ones.

Depending on your vulnerability level and flood zone classification, you may be required to undertake additional regulatory hurdles such as a sequential and exception test.

These can be problematic to navigate, but our experience means we can be with you from Local Allocation to planning permission and detailed design.

Why Use A Professional For Flood Risk Assessments?

A flood risk assessment is not just a regulatory hurdle, however.

A well-written, researched, and thought-out FRA can add value to your planning application by reducing the costs of design, redesign, and water management. ​

Engaging early with an FRA professional will ensure that you meet all your planning obligations, reducing that regulatory burden. ​

UK policy is one of risk vulnerability classification and seeking to steer development to areas of lowest risk.

The policy is well-intentioned, but can be confusing.

Therefore, it is best to contact experts for substantial advice as early as possible in your planning journey.

The NPPF also requires that plans take a proactive approach to mitigating and adapting to climate change, considering the long-term implications for flood risk, coastal change, water supply, biodiversity and landscapes, and the risk of overheating from rising temperatures (Climate Change Act, 2008).

All plans should apply a sequential, risk-based approach to the location of development – taking into account the current and future impacts of climate change You must, at least, demonstrate that the development is protected from the effects of climate change for the lifetime of it’s intended use.