New House - Potential Flood risk

pinkteapot

You probably looked at the Environment Agency flood map - which is the right one to look at.

It's risk from river you've got:
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk/map?easting=445574&northing=328221&address=10002342090&map=RiversOrSea

Surface water flood risk is fine:
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk/map?easting=445574&northing=328221&address=10002342090&map=SurfaceWater

Edit: if those links don't work, you search the address here then can see river or surface water maps:
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk/

The scale isn't low/medium/high - it's very low, low, medium, high. So medium is higher than it sounds (if you see what I mean!).

Honestly, it's medium flood risk and you've already seen water high enough to be lapping the back wall.

As I said near the start, whether you go ahead is simply down to your attitude to risk. People here have let you know what the experience is like if you do flood, so it's up to you to balance the severity of that with the degree of risk of it happening.

GDB2222

There’s a brook near us that flooded a few weeks ago. Normally, it’s 6inches deep, at most, and it rose around 4 to 5 feet. It flooded the flood plain, which very sensibly had been left as a park when the area was planned. But the planning was done 100 years ago. I’m not convinced modern planners would have done that, although they would insist on some sort of flood defences.

AdrianC

It's surprising how quickly water levels can rise with a relatively small problem. We've got a stream in a dip between us and next door. There's a pond behind a wall, and the water drops through a gully into a grate to go under the road.

A few weeks ago, in the heavy rain, the grate did its usual and blocked. The water rose, did its usual and crossed the road surface.

There's a pair of drains set into the opposite wall, through which the water should flow and into the stream the other side. They blocked.

The water was around knee level in no time. I managed to get the drains unblocked with a large pole from a distance that put me at just-below-welly-top depth. When they went, the flow out was strong... It was pulling hard at me. The water was all gone in less than five minutes, and I could clear the grate - when it's flowing hard and clear, you can hear the waterspout there from 10m or so away...

That's from a stream that rises on fields no more than a kilometre away.

markin

RelievedSheff wrote: »

It would be highly unusual for a housing development to have gotten planning permission in Flood Zone 3!

I wonder if the extents of the flood zones have changed since the development was constructed?

It has to have changed, they are always checking the models, and has been reported in the news a couple of times.


I moved the map over to fishlake, Doncaster and got a bit of a shock.

getmore4less

Planning portal has info.
https://plans.nwleics.gov.uk/public-access/spatialDisplay.do?action=display&searchType=Application

01/01452/FUL | Erection of ten dwellings with associated garaging | OS Parcel 6821 Main Street Hemington Derby DE74 2RB

There is only a legal doc on that planning app,

03/00009/VCU | Erection of ten dwellings and associated garaging without compliance with Condition 22 of planning permission 01/01452 (to allow 'up and over' garage doors) | OS Parcel 6821 Main Street Hemington Derby DE74 2RB

Contraints(might be of interest)
Not Available CAA Water/Landscape Consultation Zone Not Available



also there were 2 planning enforcement registered.
03/00297/UD | Formation of access bridge and culvert | OS Parcel 6821 Main Street Hemington Derby DE74 2RB

05/00089/UD | Non-compliance with Condition 19 of Planning Permission 01/01452/FUL regarding construction and surfacing of private drive | Ordnance Survey Parcel 6821 Balmoral Court Main Street Hemington Derby DE74 2RB


NOTE: there is a pumping station to the North of the plot.


Developer was SOL Construction LTD
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/00329348

Cakeguts

When I looked at that development on google maps I couldn't understand how anyone got planning permission to build on there. There is a stream at both sides of the development. The one next to the road though is a disaster waiting to happen.



Then I got Rightmove up and looked at housing in Castle Donnington and I couldn't understand why a very expensive for what it is and where it is house can be so attractive. If you aren't worried about noise why would you want to risk everything to buy a house that is overpriced for where it is has obviously been tarted up for sale. That house is expensive for the area that it is in without taking into account that it has a massive flood risk.



The actual value without even taking into account the flood risk can't be more than £350k so it is already around £25k more than its comparables.

Vegastare

Over 25 years ago the next village was devastated, every time we have periods of extended rain, I worry, seeing the victims of floods reminds me of families who were flooded, one Mum and her two children, three of their homes flooded.
It would be too much of a risk for me. It never leaves you.
I feel lucky that I have never been flooded, but the site of the army throwing stuff out of their homes has never left me.
It may be that this property never has a problem - put should I move there would be only one thing top of my list....and that is the possibility of flooding