The SFRA helps guide development to the most appropriate locations.
The East Hampshire SFRA (2022) reflects changes in planning policy and improvements to available flood mapping and modelling datasets since its original publication in 2008, and subsequent update in 2018.
- Level 1 Strategic flood risk assessment - 2022 (pdf 957 kb)
Maps
- Figure 1 - Topography and watercourses (pdf 5.4 mb)
- Figure 2 - Bedrock geology (pdf 13 mb)
- Figure 3 - Superficial geology (pdf 14 mb)
- Figure 4a - Groundwater flooding (pdf 16.9 mb)
- Figure 4b - Groundwater flooding (pdf 16.9 mb)
- Figure 4c - Groundwater flooding (pdf 16.9 mb)
- Figure 5a - Infiltration SuDS (pdf 5.6 mb)
- Figure 5b - Infiltration SuDS (pdf 5.6 mb)
- Figure 5c - Infiltration SuDS (pdf 19 mb)
- Figures 6A-6I – Fluvial flood risk (pdf 10.1 mb)
- Figures 6J-6M – Fluvial flood risk and climate change allowances (pdf 15.5 mb)
- Figure 7a - Recorded flood outlines (pdf 8.4 mb)
- Figure 7b - Recorded flood outlines (pdf 15 mb)
- Figure 7c - Recorded flood outlines (pdf 20 mb)
- Figures 8A-8I – Flood warning and flood alert areas (pdf 2.3 mb)
- Figure 9 - Sewer flooding (pdf 10 mb)
- Figure 10a - Risk of flooding from surface water (pdf 16 mb)
- Figure 10b - Risk of flooding from surface water (pdf 17 mb)
- Figure 10c - Risk of flooding from surface water (pdf 15 mb)
- Figure 11 – Potential for cumulative impact of development on flood risk (pdf 12.8 mb)
For information on those areas in the district within the South Downs National Park, please visit the South Downs National Park Authority website.
As part of the evidence base to support the draft local plan 2021-2040, alongside the strategic flood risk assessment 2022, evidence also includes a sequential test and exception tests.
- Level 2 exception tests 2023 (pdf 335 kb)
- Sequential test 2023 (xls 133 kb)