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July 14, 2025
Flood Risk

With around 4.6 million properties in the UK at risk of pluvial flooding, it’s important to understand where this risk comes from, what it means for you as a property buyer or homeowner and how to make your home more resilient to this type of flooding. What is pluvial flooding? Pluvial flooding refers to flooding caused by surface water. This could be the result of heavy rainfall not draining away quickly enough or overflowing drains. In urban areas, the drainage is often...

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September 13, 2023
Flood Risk

[vc_row full_screen_section_height="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Global warming may grab all the headlines, but temperature isn’t the only effect of climate change: it has a knock-on effect on flooding, too. The warmer the planet gets, the more water vapour our atmosphere can hold – and when this vapour cools and turns into rainfall, flooding is inevitable. It’s an issue faced not only by us here in the UK, but by countries around the world. Couple this increased rainfall with rising sea levels (another consequence of...

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