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
