Found out my house is high flood risk

Oomz

Thank you all so much for the comments and re-assurance, it's definitely put my mind at ease and got me back to enjoying my life and home rather than anxiously worrying all the time.

It's really odd I managed to go through a house purchase with a mortgage and the environmental search was not done but nothing I can change now - a lesson learnt for me and heads up for others.

Oomz

vacheron said:

Oomz said:

To my surprise, my house which i purchased 3.5 years ago is high risk for surface water flooding on the front driveway, medium for the neighbouring drives and low/verylow everywhere else.

Do you have a garage, or just a driveway? garages are the same height as the driveway because you need to drive cars in them. You will have noticed however that houses have external doors with steps up to them about 6" higher than the outside ground level (including doors from garages into the house. This is the reason why.

Cars similarly can survive standing in 6" of water. So unless you are parking a go-cart on your drive there is no real risk.

If you do have a garage and you think that may flood, do what I do now and store anything that isn't happy sitting in a couple of inches of water for an hour or two on shelves or storage just a few inches off the ground "just in case".

Driveway that leads up to a carport which has a garage door, at that point the ground is flat and leads to a separate garage in the garden. The garden drops down a foot and then has a gradient down to the back.