Local Development Framework

Planning Policy Statement 25 (Development and Flood Risk) published in December 2006 requires local planning authorities to prepare strategic flood risk assessments (SFRA) in consultation with the Environment Agency.

A strategic flood risk assessment was jointly commissioned by the council’s of Nottingham City, Gedling, Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Erewash and was supported by the Environment Agency, Nottingham Regeneration Limited and Severn Trent Water.

The aim of the Greater Nottingham Strategic Flood Risk Assessment was to produce floodplain mapping and data which can be used as a planning tool to help us steer new development away from those areas of highest flood risk.

The Greater Nottingham SFRA will therefore form part of the comprehensive evidence base to inform the Local Development Framework and will be used in conjunction with the existing flood maps held by the Environment Agency as a material consideration when determining planning applications.

A briefing note has been prepared by the Environment Agency which explains some of the context to the preparation of the strategic flood risk assessment and how it should be used. A map is also provided below to demonstrate the areas that have been covered by the SFRA.

You can access a ‘general’ volume of the SFRA which covers the whole area and a separate volume specifically for Erewash Borough Council. However, due to the complexity of the maps included within the study, the file sizes are too large to be hosted on the website. To request a CD copy of the full strategic flood risk assessment, please contact the Policy and Development Team on 08459072244 (ext 3152, 3153, 3154)

• Greater Nottingham SFRA Briefing Note (43KB)
• Areas Covered by the SFRA (631KB)
• SFRA Technical Report. Vol 1 General (1300KB)
• Erewash Borough Tech Report (136KB)
• Erewash Borough Non Tech Summary (236KB)

These documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website

The Greater Nottingham Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (GNSFRA) originally issued in July 2008 has been updated to take into account more recent flood modelling undertaken through Nottingham to take account of the Nottingham Left Bank Flood Alleviation Scheme (The GNSFRA 2010 update mainly affects Sawley and Long Eaton in Erewash).