Building standards guidance - Section 3.3 Flooding and Groundwater: consultation on proposed updates
Consultation to consider updates to the guidance within Section 3.3 Flooding and groundwater of the Technical Handbooks with a particular focus on property flood resilience for new buildings and new building work that is being undertaken in areas identified as being at risk of flooding.
Closed
This consultation closed 3 October 2025.
View this consultation on consult.gov.scot, including responses once published.
Consultation analysis
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Footnotes
1 Flood Risk Management Plans | SEPA
2 Flood resilient properties: framework for Scotland - gov.scot
3 Living with flooding: action plan - gov.scot
4 National Flood Resilience Strategy - gov.scot
5 Climate change: Scottish National Adaptation Plan 2024-2029 - gov.scot
6 Flood Risk Management Plans, SEPA
7 Adaptation Scotland: Climate trends and projections
8 Admiralty Tide Tables Volume 1; United Kingdom and Ireland published by the UK Hydrographic Office
Contact
Email: Buildingstandards@gov.scot