Guidance

Peak rainfall climate change allowances by management catchment

Information on peak rainfall allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.

Applies to England

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Peak rainfall climate change allowanced by management catchment

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This table provides the peak rainfall allowances for each management catchment. You need this information if you are a:

  • local planning authority preparing strategic flood risk assessments
  • developer or agent preparing flood risk assessments for planning applications, and development consent orders for nationally significant infrastructure projects
  • a risk management authority developing a flood and coastal risk project, scheme or strategy

To use the correct climate change allowances for peak rainfall you need to identify the management catchment for your assessment. If you do not know the name of your management catchment, use the guidance and link to the peak rainfall map in:

Updates to this page

Published 9 May 2022

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