New flood map targets homeowners

Available online, the map will offer a 'low', 'moderate', or 'significant' risk assessment based on proximity to rivers, the coast, and whether flood protection defences are in place. Benefits include far higher accuracy than its predecessor, including some 35% more mapped rivers, and inclusion of previously excluded extremely flood-prone areas. Some 100,000 properties have been cut from the previous 1.8 million unit estimate of houses with a 1-in-100 risk of flooding becuase of refinements to the mapping. Overall, the map coveres some 2.2 million properties. The ABI says the pu...