Prioritisation Map for Natural Flood Management
Welsh Government
This map presents an approach for prioritisation of Natural Flood Management (NFM) within Wales. This approach was developed as part of a review of NFM in Wales. More details on this review and how this map was created can be found here.
This map was developed to give a strategic overview of the areas which are more suitable for NFM. Catchments have been identified upstream of communities at risk of flooding and have been assessed depending on the percentage areal coverage of NFM potential. A greater potential for NFM is assessed as having a higher priority based on the greater potential for reduction in flood risk.
Four different datasets have been created to target two different catchment scales, small surface water flood risk catchments and larger fluvial flood risk catchments and to reflect different potential user priority aims, flood risk management and wider environmental benefits.
The maps should be considered ‘indicative’ only, as there will be other considerations and constraints that need to be considered in the development of NFM schemes. The maps should be used in conjunction with local knowledge, other datasets and early and full landowner and occupier engagement.
The maps do not account for reduction in flood risk to individual assets. Further, more detailed analysis would be required to attain this level of understanding.
A User Guide for this map is available here.
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Data this map is using (8)
- Type:
- Map
- Publication date:
- 18 February 2025
- Licence:
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Point of contact:
- floodcoastalrisk@gov.wales
- Language
- English
- Spatial Representation Type
- Vector data is used to represent geographic data