Strategic flood risk assessment (SFRA) 2025

What's it all about?

The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) 2025 provides a comprehensive and robust evidence base on issues of flood risk to support the production of the Local Plan to 2041. The SFRA will be used inform decisions on the location of future development and the preparation of sustainable policies for the long-term management of flood risk.

The SFRA is presented in two parts:

• The Level 1 SFRA (2025) is now available.
• The Level 2 SFRA (2025) is not available yet. The most recent SFRA Level 2 (2020) remains available to access in the meantime.

Level 1 SFRA (2025)

The Level 1 SFRA (2025) document provides a comprehensive and robust evidence base on flood risk issues to support the review and update of the planning policies for Hinckley and Bosworth borough. This report uses the best available information at the time of publication, including input from key stakeholders.

The Level 1 SFRA (2025) comprises:

• The main report
• Appendix A: GeoPDF User Guide
• Appendix B: Data sources used in the SFRA
• Appendix C: SFRA User Guide: Sequential test methodology
• Appendix D: Flood Alert and Flood Warning Areas
• Appendix E: Summary of flood risk in Hinckley and Bosworth borough
• Appendix F: Cumulative Impact Assessment

Download flood risk map(s) for our borough

To display flood risk data in interactive GeoPDF maps, the borough has been split into 21 regions (5km x 5km), as visualised in our Key Plan document 

You can access the interactive GeoPDF maps via our online form below. Simply select which borough region(s) you are interested in, and the form will provide the relevant links, which are to be saved to your device (the interactive PDFs do not function properly in the browser).

Choose SFRA map(s)

‎Last updated: 16/04/2025 14:15