| Description |
This dataset is the sole comprehensive and up-to-date spatial layer in England depicting flood defences currently owned, managed, or inspected by the Environment Agency. The layer maps assets providing fluvial flood defence or coastal protection functions—encompassing structures, buildings, or parts of buildings such as earth banks (embankments), stone and concrete walls, and sheet-piling, as well as natural defences (including those reinforced with man-made elements against erosion) that operate together within flood risk management systems. Standardized attributes detail asset type, ownership, maintenance responsibility, condition grade, and design crest levels. |