Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA)

As part of the new duties the Council commissioned URS (formerly Scott Wilson) in 2011 to undertake a Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA) and a Surface Water Management Plan (SWMP).

The PFRA provides a high level summary of significant flood risk, based on available and readily derivable information, describing both the probability and harmful consequences of past and future flooding. The scope of the PFRA is to consider flooding from the following sources; surface runoff, groundwater, sewers and ordinary watercourses and any interaction these have with main rivers and the sea.