{"id":83,"date":"2018-02-26T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/flood-risk-assessment-catford-se6\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:52:00","slug":"flood-risk-assessment-catford-se6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/flood-risk-assessment-catford-se6\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Risk Assessment &#8211; Catford SE6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Flood Risk Assessment &#8211; Catford SE6<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southwest Environmental Limited<\/a> were commissioned by a client to undertake a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwest-environmental.co.uk\/flood%20risk%20assessment%20FRA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flood Risk Assessment<\/a> at a site in South East London.<\/p>\n<p>The project was for conversion of a basement to living quarters. This is usually one of the more difficult situation to get passed off with the Environment Agency (as consultees in planning) as a flooded basement is not a very good thing \/ situation:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>It is hard to dry out.<\/li>\n<li>It is hard to get flood data (most relates to ground level).<\/li>\n<li>Hard to prove people will be safe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>All these things \/ factors&nbsp; stack up against the normal bunch \/ collection of criteria \/ things that must be met to satisfy both the Environment Agency and the Local Planning Authority.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-H6gjCijbQow\/WpQDEB6dJlI\/AAAAAAAAB0I\/OVfhbCjnTxo779yfVIdwYO1OIKHbJguLQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/flood_risk_SE6.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"182\" data-original-width=\"182\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-H6gjCijbQow\/WpQDEB6dJlI\/AAAAAAAAB0I\/OVfhbCjnTxo779yfVIdwYO1OIKHbJguLQCLcBGAs\/s400\/flood_risk_SE6.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this instance there was a slight advantage as the basement on this site was more akin to a lower ground floor, being open on 3 sides, only being below ground level on the street frontage.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, it has still been necessary to make a detailed study of&nbsp; site levels relative to the flood levels. Only in this way can SWEL provide mitigation measures when considering the risk involved.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flood Risk Assessment &#8211; Catford SE6 Southwest Environmental Limited were commissioned by a client to undertake a Flood Risk Assessment at a site in South East London. The project was for conversion of a basement to living quarters. This is usually one of the more difficult situation to get passed off with the Environment Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flood-risk-assessment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwest-environmental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}