In message , Martin Wiseman
writes
Hi,

There is a good possibility that we may be moving from Leeds to the
Cambridge/Huntingdon area this year, depending on how SWMBO's new job
hunting goes.

The environment agency does have maps with flooding risks, but the
current ones take no account of flood defences etc., so of course the
fens are all coloured blue as a flood risk, not very helpful.

Actually, I think you will find that the fens are all coloured blue
because they really do have a =1% risk of flooding in any given year
(the EA's criteria). The big problem with the maps is that they don't
tell you how far above the 1% any given area is.

OIndded, the info just isn't there yet it seems.

There are plenty of places between Cambridge and Huntingdon which don't
appear in blue on the EA's map, perhaps you should start looking there.

Oh sure, it's just that we've just been doing a bit of looking at what
sorts of places there are around out our price range and it happens that
we came up with a few places that all happened to be out in the Fens (as
well as some in other areas more 'inland'. I appreciate that there are
plenty of other areas, and that not all of the fenland is as prone to
flooding as some other parts, hence wanting to get an idea of what the
risk is.

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Chris French, Leeds