dataset · England
AIMS Spatial Flood Defences (inc. standardised attributes)
This record is for Approval for Access product AfA345. The Environment Agency's (EA) Spatial Flood defences layer is the only comprehensive and up-to-date dataset in England that shows flood defences currently owned, managed or inspected by the EA. Flood defences can be structures, buildings or parts of buildings. Typically these are earth banks, stone and concrete walls, or sheet-piling that is used to prevent or control the extent of flooding. A defence is any asset that provides flood defence
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Evidence quality: 70
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- flood defence assets owned, managed or inspected by the EA · standardised attributes
- Coverage docs-verified
- England
- Update frequency docs-verified
- daily
- Formats docs-verified
- Shapefile (SHP, zipped) · GeoPackage (GPKG, zipped) · GeoJSON (zipped) · File Geodatabase (GDB, zipped) · OGC API - Features · WFS · WMS
- Access docs-verified
- Free/open: no public access constraints; Open Government Licence v3.0
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- FRA baseline: locate EA-owned or managed defences relative to a site · Hydraulic model checks: confirm defence positions against model boundaries and crest lines · Planning constraints mapping: identify nearby flood defence assets for development screening
- Audience llm-inferred
- flood consultants · hydrologists · GIS analysts · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Covers only defences currently owned, managed or inspected by the EA, not all flood defences in England · Record is for Approval for Access product AfA345 · National download is large and may take 7-8 minutes depending on format
Evidence
- https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=3aa34e3d-1d6d-4345-a655-64a683e06b6b&fileName=AIMS Spatial Flood Defences Product Description.pdf
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cc76738e-fc17-49f9-a216-977c61858dda/aims-spatial-flood-defences-inc-standardised-attributes
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.