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6. How to access the data

Created: 31 October 2024 Updated: 25 March 2025

The flood risk data we publish on Check Your Long-Term Flood Risk and Flood Map for Planning is freely available on the Defra Data Services Platform (DSP) at the following links:

These datasets are available as open data via WMS feeds. The scale display has been set to 1:50 000 – users will need to zoom to this scale to view the data. Please see our FAQ on displaying the data if you have any issues. The Flood Map for Planning datasets are also available via WFS and OGC feeds.

The datasets are also available for download. National coverage of the Flood Map for Planning datasets are available for download in geodatabase format in compressed zip files. Users will be able to download areas of interest, by accessing the link to ‘Download data by area of interest’.  Note that the area of data you can download will be determined by the feature density and total number of features of the layer(s) requested. Where the request exceeds the limits of these services, due to the complexity of these datasets, users will be prompted to complete a ‘Large Data Download’ request. Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea and Risk of Flooding from Surface Water data is available through a SFTP. See our FAQ on downloading the data.

Please note that these links are different to previous versions of the datasets. 

The coastal erosion risk data we publish on Shoreline Management Plan Explorer and Explore Coastal Erosion Risk is free to download on the Defra Data Services Platform as open data via the following links:

Please note that these links are different to previous versions of the datasets.