Flood Risk Assessment (2010-11)
Please note - the material below is part of the background evidence for the 2012 Local Plan. More up-to-date evidence is being prepared for the new Local Plan 2023-38; this may supersede the documents linked to below.
The Council carried out a Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) in consultation with the Environment Agency. The assessment was carried out as a two-stage process, made up of:
1. An initial baseline study, followed by
2. A more detailed study due to the need to consider land for development in areas of high flood risk.
SFRA Level One (2010)
- Strategic Flood Risk Assessment 2010 (PDF 337kb)
- SFRA Appendix 1-3 - Flood Zones (PDF 8.5mb)
- SFRA Appendix 4 - Flood Management Systems (PDF 2.29mb)
- SFRA Appendix 5 - Alt/Crossens Catchment (PDF 2.62mb)
- SFRA Appendix 6 - Non-fluvial flood incidents (PDF 2.62mb)
- SFRA Appendix 7 - Flood zones at settlement level (PDF 13.3mb)
- SFRA Appendix 8 - Fluvial flooding at Sandy/Hurlston Brook (PDF 2.29mb)
- SFRA Appendix 9 - DE5 Surface water drainage and flooding (PDF 531kb)
- SFRA Appendix 10 - Waterways (PDF 3.66mb)
- SFRA Appendix 11 - Surface water flooding (PDF 396kb)
SFRA Level Two (2011)
In 2011, the Council carried out the SFRA Level 2 ('SFRA-L2') in consultation with the Environment Agency.
SFRA-L2 Appendix 1: NPPF Technical Guidance
SFRA-L2 Appendix 2: Maps of Settlements and Indicative Flood Zones
- Download Appley Bridge (PDF 1.5mb)
- Download Aughton (PDF 1.5mb)
- Download Banks and Mere Brow (PDF 1.5kb)
- Download Burscough (PDF 1.5mb)
- Download Halsall and Haskayne (PDF 1.0mb)
- Download Hesketh Bank (PDF 1.6mb)
- Download Ormskirk (PDF 1.8mb)
- Download Parbold (PDF 1.5mb)
- Download Rufford (PDF 1.2mb)
- Download Scarisbrick (PDF 1.4mb)
- Download Sefton boundary (PDF 1.6mb)
- Download Skelmersdale east and Up Holland (PDF 2.0mb)
- Download Skelmersdale west (PDF 2.0mb)
- Download Tarleton (PDF 1.7mb)
- Download Wrightington (PDF 1.3mb)
SFRA-L2 Appendix 3: Settlement Housing Data Analysis
- Skelmersdale (PDF 42kb)
- Ormskirk with Aughton (PDF 29kb)
- Burscough (PDF 24kb)
- Northern Parishes (PDF 32kb)
- Eastern Parishes (PDF 23kb)
- Western Parishes (PDF 22kb)
SFRA-L2 Appendix 4
SFRA-L2 Appendix 5