More Keywords

This page explains some of the terms that are commonly used in flood risk management.

• Attenuation
• Catchment flood management plans (CFMP)
• Civil Contingency Act, 2004 (CCA) 
• Climate change
• Conveyance
• Exceedence flow
• Flood action group
• Flood defence
• Flood and coastal defence operating authorities
• Floods and Water Bill 
• Flood map
• Floodplain
• Flood risk assessment (covers all scales of assessment)
• Flood zone
• Fluvial flooding
• Freeboard
• Future Water 
• Greenfield land
• Local development framework (LDF)
• Local development documents (LDDs)
• Local resilience forum
• Main river
• Ordinary watercourse
• Permitted development rights
• Planning Policy Statement (PPS)
• Pluvial flooding
• Previously-developed land (often referred to ‘brownfield land’)
• Regional flood risk appraisal (RFRA)
• Regional spatial strategy (RSS)
• Resilience
• Resistance
• Return period
• Residual risk
• Run-off
• Section 106 Agreement
• Sewage
• Sewerage
• Shoreline management plan (SMP)
• Site-specific flood risk assessments (FRAs)
• Standard of protection
• Strategic flood risk assessments (SFRA)
• Supplementary planning document 
• Sustainable drainage systems (SUDS)
• Sustainability appraisal
• Windfall sites