Flood Report

barrybarryr

Hi,

I want to get a flood report done on a property that my girlfriend and I have had an offer accepted on.

I have looked on various sites on the net and GroundSure and Homecheck seem to be about £15 - £20 plus vat.

Our solicitor is saying it will cost £70.74. Is this some different kind of report or are the trying to add £50 fees for getting it (which I could do myself in about 5 minutes, 7 if I had to walk to the bedroom to take my debit card out of my wallet and walk back to the front room)?

Thanks

Barry

Hailstorm

The flood report my solicitor arranged for me cost about £20. £70 does sound excessive unless it is a special type of report.

slummymummyof3

Flood report we were given by our solicitor about 9 years ago told us we were in a high risk area because we were 1/2 mile from a small watercourse. What it failed to mention was the fact that the water would have to climb about 80'

spirit

Be very wary about buying a property on a flood plain or near a watercourse which is liable to flooding. I assume that because you've been asked to get one that this is the case?

You may well find it either extremely difficult or expensive to get buildings insurance cover.

delmar39

Have you been on the env agency website. You can input the postcode of the house and it returns a result of low, med or high. Our flood report showed that our new house is within 250 mts of a flood plain, but the env agency website said low risk. As per what slummymummyof3 has written above, we are also above the flood plain so it's hard to see how flooding could occur. This isn't to say that I'm not thinking of playing it safe by finding out once and for all, but having had family in the village for 60+ years who have never been affected by flooding, I'm not overly concerned (famous last words!). All our solicitor said to us was make sure you insurance company covers you for flooding.

Richard_Webster

The only reports that are useful are those that give real information about how often an area actually has flooded and how possible future flooding would be.

Remember that if there is X amount of water it will rise and flow over the next lowest areas. If there is a lot of low land near a watercourse it will flood that first - if there is less low land nearby then it will flow further through such low areas as there are. Differences of a few feet in levels make quite a difference.

I live about 1/4 mile from a stream that flows through a culvert into the tidal River Itchen - at high tides the water backs up through the culvert and fills the stream quite a way back. I have never known this to overflow in 28 years living nearby, but it might. However I live 100' up a hill so I can't see this is relevant to me apart from making it more difficult to get to work! Loads of people are going to be in similar situations and often flooding is simply not an issue however close they are to water simply because of levels.