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New Builds on Londons flood plane
Hi, I found this doing a search of open data a couple of years ago thought you might find it interesting.
Flood plane area Barking Riverside is not on the flood map, has the displacement been calculated for the mass of the new builds.
Building on flood the plane and not showing it as a risk on the UK GOV flood map that bots would check for insurance and mortgages.
Regards
John
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8 Replies
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@RachelJudson @Sarah @Peter – you may have views on this info that John has found?
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@JRobertson – thank you for sharing, this is interesting. Would it be possible to share the link to the report or open data you found?
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It would be interesting to know the source of the data, John. What we have found through the work on Credo is that the data is not always easy to find, or consistent, so very much depends on data being supplied in a timely and usable way. It looks to me that some data is missing here either hydrology or some sensor data about particular flood defenses.
The quality of the data is always key to getting quality results.
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Hi,
Sorry to say i found the data 2 years ago and laying my hands on the source now is not going to be easy.
The riverside development https://barkingriverside.london/
As you can see the site is feet from the Thames, within short distance from the Thames barrier and has no raise thresholds at the door step.
The site is partly occupied by Barking Reach Power Station so i would expect a history of accurate data collection.
I found the data in a collection of Thames barrier events, environment agency forecast flooding likelyhood maps.
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Hi,
Sorry to say i found the data 2 years ago and laying my hands on the source now is not going to be easy.
The riverside development https://barkingriverside.london/
Visiting the site it is within feet from the Thames water level, and short distance from the Thames barrier and houses have no raise thresholds at the door step.
The site is partly occupied by Barking Reach Power Station so i would expect a history of accurate data collection.
I found the data in a collection of Thames barrier events, environment agency forecast flooding likelyhood maps.
one of the websites, which show low risk, an older map showed it would completely flood for 1 mile in a one hundred year event, which i will try to find.
https://check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map
Thames barrier closures history.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-thames-barrier#thames-barrier-closures
London flood map shows areas that may be regularly underwater by 2030/ less than 9 years away.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/london-flood-map-risk-b1917001.html
The Nasa tool with site location.
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So it seems the Environment Agency built the https://check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map which shows that section of the riverbank as being free from flooding. Would raising a FOI on the Environment agency to explain why that section of the bank does not flood according to their map?
I found a report by WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff relating to the flood risk in Barking Riverside: Appendix D.pdf (lucmaps.co.uk) which may help?
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Hi,
The W SP Parsons Brinckerhoff report doesn’t mention, on the edge of its maps the main road artery in and out of London to the east and the docks, has plans to be turned (the A13) into a 1.3km tunnel in the area. each one of the pages of the reports shows it in danger of flooding.
The area is having an overground extension and is a goods line into London three years ago it welcomed a train from China.
bad pun but if not handled well could be a perfect storm area to cripple London rail and road cargo, and transport.
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