Summary
AIMS Spatial Flood Defences is the Environment Agency’s spatial dataset for flood defences in England. It helps buyers identify whether a defence exists near a property, what kind of asset it is and how it is recorded. It should not be treated as a promise that the property is safe because defence condition, design standard, maintenance and breach or overtopping risk still matter.
Definition
AIMS Spatial Flood Defences is an Environment Agency dataset showing the location and attributes of flood defences owned, managed or inspected by the Environment Agency. Attributes can help identify defence type, asset information and related metadata. Buyers should use the dataset to ask better questions about standard of protection, condition, asset owner, inspection or maintenance status, residual risk and whether the property is in an Area Benefiting from Defences.