Annual average fine particulate matter
- Highest — TA0383
- 5.55 µg/m³
- Median
- 5.07 µg/m³
- Lowest — TA0186
- 4.86 µg/m³
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Annual average coarse particulate matter
- Highest — TA0383
- 10.25 µg/m³
- Median
- 9.29 µg/m³
- Lowest — TA0588
- 8.07 µg/m³
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Annual average NO₂
- Highest — TA0483
- 8.37 µg/m³
- Median
- 4.87 µg/m³
- Lowest — TA0379
- 3.81 µg/m³
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Annual average NOx, expressed as NO₂
- Highest — TA0483
- 10.76 µg/m³ as NO₂
- Median
- 6.07 µg/m³ as NO₂
- Lowest — TA0379
- 4.7 µg/m³ as NO₂
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Annual average SO₂
- Highest — TA0383
- 1.87 µg/m³
- Median
- 0.76 µg/m³
- Lowest — TA0379
- 0.44 µg/m³
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Annual average benzene
- Highest — TA0388
- 0.36 µg/m³
- Median
- 0.25 µg/m³
- Lowest — TA0379
- 0.21 µg/m³
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Modelled annual average for the 1 km grid square containing this postcode — an estimate from Defra's national air-quality model, not a measurement taken here. It is a BACKGROUND concentration: the roadside increment is deliberately excluded, so streets beside busy roads inside this square are worse than this figure. Model methodology changes between years, so year-on-year comparisons are indicative.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Days a year the 8-hour ozone target is exceeded
- Highest — TA0683
- 0 days
- Median
- 0 days
- Lowest — TA0186
- 0 days
- Source period
- 2024
- How calculated
- Range across complete intersecting source areas
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
Variation across complete unique intersecting source areas; this is not a recomputed page-level statistic.
Defra's published ozone metric: the modelled number of days on which the daily maximum running 8-hour concentration exceeds 120 µg/m³. It is not an annual average concentration, and Defra publish no such figure for ozone. Modelled for the 1 km square containing this postcode, not measured here, and a background estimate that excludes the roadside increment.
Source and provenance
UK background air-pollution maps — Defra / UK-AIR
Method: Range across complete intersecting source areas.
ENV-AIRMODEL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Defra, UK-AIR).
Estimated share of homes above the radon Action Level
- 1 to 3% of homes above the Action Level
- 5
- 10 to 30% of homes above the Action Level
- 12
- 3 to 5% of homes above the Action Level
- 0
- 30% or more of homes above the Action Level
- 0
- 5 to 10% of homes above the Action Level
- 10
- Less than 1% of homes above the Action Level
- 7
- Source period
- 2021
- How calculated
- Counts using consistent category definitions
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
This is the estimated chance that a home in this 1 km square exceeds the 200 Bq/m³ radon Action Level. It is NOT a measurement of radon at this address, and no map can tell you what any individual property contains — only a test in the property itself can, over three to six months. The mapping is also deliberately precautionary: BGS class each square by the HIGHEST radon potential found anywhere within it, so most homes in a square have a lower potential than the band shown. It does not apply to basements, cellars or underground rooms at all, which should be treated as higher risk wherever they are. For a definitive assessment of a specific address, UKHSA's UKradon service sells an address report.
Source and provenance
Indicative radon potential map — BGS / UKHSA
Method: Counts using consistent category definitions.
ENV-RADON · Open Government Licence v3.0 (BGS/UKHSA) · imported 25 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Contains UK Health Security Agency data.
Whether UKHSA classify this square as radon affected
- No — this square is below the Affected Area threshold
- 7
- Yes — this square is within a radon Affected Area
- 27
- Source period
- 2021
- How calculated
- Counts using consistent category definitions
- Source areas
- 34 / 34
UKHSA define a radon Affected Area as one where at least one home in a hundred is expected to exceed the Action Level. This applies that definition to the indicative 1 km band, so it inherits the same precaution: the square is classed by its worst point, and most homes inside an Affected Area are not above the Action Level. Being inside one is a reason to test, not a finding about this property.
Source and provenance
Indicative radon potential map — BGS / UKHSA
Method: Counts using consistent category definitions.
ENV-RADON · Open Government Licence v3.0 (BGS/UKHSA) · imported 25 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Contains UK Health Security Agency data.
Closest automatic station currently reporting
- Source period
- 2026-10-02
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The closest station on the automatic network that is currently publishing readings. Around 570 monitoring sites are open across Great Britain but most are diffusion tubes and samplers with no hourly output, so a nearer site may exist that cannot tell you anything about today.
Source and provenance
UK-AIR monitoring / Sensor Observation Service — Defra + devolved administrations
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-AIRLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Air quality data funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.
Straight-line distance to the closest reporting station
- Source period
- 2026-10-02
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Straight-line distance. There are only around 213 automatic stations for the whole UK — roughly one per 1,100 km² — so this is often kilometres and in rural areas tens of kilometres. The further away it is, the less its readings say about the air here.
Source and provenance
UK-AIR monitoring / Sensor Observation Service — Defra + devolved administrations
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-AIRLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Air quality data funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.
Closest SSSI, SAC, SPA, Ramsar, nature reserve, National Park or National Landscape
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Local Nature Reserve: THE DELL.
Statutory designations only. The ancient woodland and priority habitat inventories are excluded here because they map habitat rather than confer a designation.
Source and provenance
Protected sites / habitats datasets — Natural England
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-NATURE · Open Government Licence for most datasets; check each layer · imported 24 August 2026
© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
What kind of location that station measures
- Source period
- 2026-10-02
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Defra classify every site by what it is there to measure. A Rural Background station is sited away from traffic on purpose and an Urban Traffic station sits at a kerb, so the same reading means very different things depending on which one produced it. If the station type does not match the surroundings here, its numbers will be wrong for this postcode in a predictable direction.
Source and provenance
UK-AIR monitoring / Sensor Observation Service — Defra + devolved administrations
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-AIRLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 2 October 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Air quality data funded by Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.
Daily maximum, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
The closest monitored outfall, and what it discharges into
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A storm overflow is a relief point on the sewer network that discharges to the watercourse named here when the system is overloaded. It is near this postcode; the water it discharges into is not the water at this postcode. Only monitored overflows appear at all.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Daily minimum, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Straight-line distance to the closest monitored outfall
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is PLAXTONS FACTORY NO 2 CSO.
Straight-line distance to the outfall recorded in the Environment Agency consents database, within 10 km. Proximity to an outfall is not exposure to it: it discharges into a watercourse, not onto the surrounding land.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The closest area the Environment Agency warns for
- Source period
- 2026-08-28
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is North Sea at Scarborough - Spa Complex — North Sea. A flood warning area is where the Environment Agency operates a warning service; it is not a map of which properties flood..
A flood warning area is where the Environment Agency operates a warning service for a river or the sea. It is not a flood risk map and not a flood extent: many properties inside one have never flooded, and surface water and groundwater flooding happen largely outside these areas. Distance is measured to the published outline where it is held and to the area centre otherwise.
Source and provenance
Environment Agency flood monitoring — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-FLOODLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026
this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)
Spills recorded at the nearest overflow in its latest reporting year
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is PLAXTONS FACTORY NO 2 CSO in 2024, monitor operational 100.0%.
A count of spills a working monitor recorded, using the Environment Agency's 12-24 hour counting convention. It is not a count of spills that happened: monitor coverage grew from 12,375 overflows reporting in 2021 to 14,182 in 2024, and an overflow whose monitor failed part-way through the year records fewer spills rather than more. Read it beside the monitor uptime shown alongside. Nothing here measures volume or what was discharged.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Daily mean, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Straight-line distance to the closest gauging station
- Source period
- 2026-08-28
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Scarborough Light House. A gauge on a watercourse — its distance says nothing about whether water reaches this postcode..
A telemetry station on a watercourse, within 25 km. Its distance describes where the Environment Agency measures a river, not where water would reach.
Source and provenance
Environment Agency flood monitoring — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-FLOODLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026
this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)
Total in an average year, 1991–2020
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Hours of recorded discharge at the nearest overflow, latest year
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is PLAXTONS FACTORY NO 2 CSO in 2024.
Total hours the monitor recorded the overflow discharging, before the 12-24 hour counting convention is applied. Duration is not volume and says nothing about what was discharged or its effect on the watercourse. A monitor that was offline for part of the year records fewer hours.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Hours of bright sunshine in an average year, 1991–2020
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Share of the reporting year the monitor actually worked
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is PLAXTONS FACTORY NO 2 CSO in 2024.
The percentage of the reporting year the event duration monitor at this overflow was operational, as reported by the water company. This is why a spill count is not a measurement: at 100% the count is what the monitor saw all year, and at 40% it is what it saw for less than half of it. A low spill count from a monitor with low uptime is not evidence of few spills.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Daily maximum in July, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Whether the postcode falls inside an Environment Agency warning area
- Source period
- 2026-08-28
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is This postcode is not inside an Environment Agency flood warning or alert area. That is not a statement that it cannot flood: these areas cover rivers and the sea, and surface water and groundwater flooding happen largely outside them..
Being inside a flood warning area means the Environment Agency would warn for this area if flooding were expected. It does NOT mean this property floods, and being outside one does not mean it is safe — these areas cover rivers and the sea, while surface water and groundwater flooding happen largely outside them. Long-term flood probability is a separate assessment that is not held here.
Source and provenance
Environment Agency flood monitoring — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-FLOODLIVE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 28 August 2026
this uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)
The company that reported this overflow to the Environment Agency
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The water and sewerage company responsible for the nearest overflow. It is not necessarily the company that supplies drinking water to this postcode — water supply and sewerage areas do not always coincide.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Daily minimum in January, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A 1991–2020 thirty-year average from the Met Office's HadUK-Grid, which interpolates weather-station observations onto a grid — no station stands at this postcode and this is not a measurement taken here. The figure is averaged across a whole climate district, and ALTITUDE moves real local climate far more than that average can show: a hillside and the valley below it share this number and do not share the weather.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Where released water could spread if a large raised reservoir failed while rivers were already high
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A credible worst-case emergency-planning scenario, not the probability of flooding or reservoir failure. The map shows extent only, not depth, velocity or arrival time. It omits smaller reservoirs and reservoirs commissioned after October 2016. The test uses the postcode centroid, so a postcode crossing an extent boundary can contain properties on either side.
Source and provenance
Reservoir flood extents — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-RESERVOIR · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026
Monitored outfalls on the sewer network nearby
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Counts monitored storm overflows, not overflows. Unmonitored overflows exist and are not in this dataset, and where an overflow's monitor returned no data for the year that is stated rather than counted as zero spills. Overflows are concentrated where the sewer network is, so a rural postcode with few is not necessarily better served.
Source and provenance
Event Duration Monitoring / storm overflows — Environment Agency / English water companies
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-EDM · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nights the air temperature fell below zero, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
AIR frost — nights when the air temperature at screen height fell below zero. It is not ground frost, which is measured at the grass surface and happens on many more nights, and it is not a guide to whether pipes will freeze at one address. A 1991–2020 average across a whole climate district, from an interpolated grid; altitude changes this figure sharply over short distances.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Where released water could spread if a large raised reservoir failed while rivers were at normal levels
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A credible worst-case emergency-planning scenario, not the probability of flooding or reservoir failure. The map shows extent only, not depth, velocity or arrival time. It omits smaller reservoirs and reservoirs commissioned after October 2016. The test uses the postcode centroid, so a postcode crossing an extent boundary can contain properties on either side.
Source and provenance
Reservoir flood extents — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-RESERVOIR · Open Government Licence · imported 25 August 2026
Days a year with at least 1 mm of rain, 1991–2020 average
- Source period
- 1991-2020 normal (series to 2026)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Days on which at least 1 mm of rain fell — a measure of how OFTEN it rains, which is a different thing from how much falls. A 1991–2020 average across a whole climate district, from a grid interpolated between weather stations rather than measured at this postcode.
Source and provenance
HadUK-Grid climate observations — Met Office
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-HADUK · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HadUK-Grid areal series © Crown copyright, Met Office.
Whether this postcode sits in the area where a coal mining report is recommended
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
THIS IS NOT A COAL MINING REPORT. It says only whether the postcode's centre point falls inside the area where the Mining Remediation Authority recommends buyers obtain one — a consultation boundary covering whole districts, not a finding about any property. The official CON29M report is the only thing that answers the property question, and a conveyancer will order it where it is needed. Recorded workings only: the Authority states that before 1872 there was no requirement to deposit abandonment plans, so unrecorded workings exist and "outside the area" is not a guarantee about the ground.
Source and provenance
Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
The closest designated site within 15 km
- Source period
- 2025 season
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Only designated bathing waters are sampled — 464 sites in England, coastal or specific inland waters. Where there is none within 15 km that is a real answer: the local river, lake or beach is not assessed under this regime, which is neither good news nor bad. Scotland and Wales are regulated separately and are not included.
Source and provenance
Bathing water quality data — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-BATH · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The closest Environment Agency sampling point, and what it samples
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A place the Environment Agency takes samples, within 15 km. The type matters: a freshwater point samples a river or lake, while a final-effluent point samples what a sewage or industrial works discharges, measured at the pipe before any dilution. Neither is drinking water.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The planning classification of the ground here: high risk, low risk, or neither
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A planning classification of an area, formerly called the Development Referral Area. High risk means the Authority records at least one coal mining feature somewhere in that polygon — a mine entry, shallow workings, a hazard, a mine gas site, a fissure or former surface mining — and that new development there must demonstrate it will be safe and stable. It does not mean any of those features lies under this postcode, and this is not a mining report.
Source and provenance
Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Straight-line distance to the site's sampling point
- Source period
- 2025 season
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Straight-line distance to the sampling point at Cayton Bay..
Straight-line distance to the sampling point of the nearest designated bathing water, not walking or driving distance, and not to the nearest point of the beach.
Source and provenance
Bathing water quality data — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-BATH · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Straight-line distance to the closest sampling point
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is EASTFIELD DRAIN AT B1261 - EASTFIELD.
How far away the nearest sampling point is, not how good the water is. Sampling points are sited for regulatory reasons — often just downstream of a discharge — so a nearby point is not a sign of either good or bad water.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Whether the postcode falls in a mapped coalfield consultation area
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A planning consultation trigger about coal RESOURCE — the only value the publisher uses in this layer is "Minable Coal". It is not about recorded workings, not about ground stability, and not a mining report.
Source and provenance
Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
The most recent in-season sample at that site
- Source period
- 2025 season
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is E. coli 82 and intestinal enterococci <10 cfu/100 ml at Cayton Bay, sampled 14 August 2026 A result shown with "<" is a limit of detection rather than a measured count. One sample, on one day, at this site's sampling point..
One sample, on one day, at one sampling point. Sampling runs 15 May to 30 September in England, so outside the season the newest result can be months old — the date is always shown. A count reported with "<" is a limit of detection rather than a measurement. A sample the Environment Agency has discounted under the short-term pollution rules is labelled as such and does not count towards the annual classification.
Source and provenance
Bathing water quality data — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-BATH · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
When the nearest point was last sampled
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Sampling frequency varies from monthly to years apart depending on why the point exists, and points are closed and opened as programmes change. An old date means the Environment Agency has not sampled there recently, not that the water has been ignored.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Most recent ammoniacal nitrogen result at the nearest river or lake point
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Ammoniacal Nitrogen as N at EASTFIELD DRAIN AT B1261 - EASTFIELD, sampled 18 March 2026.
One sample, on one day, at the named point — not an average and not a description of the water anywhere else. Ammonia in rivers rises sharply after rain and after discharges, so a single figure can be far from typical. Results reported as below a limit of detection are shown as that limit rather than as a number. No pass or fail threshold is published with these results.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Excellent, Good, Sufficient or Poor for the latest season
- Source period
- 2025 season
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A statistical assessment of samples taken across recent bathing seasons at this designated site, under the revised Bathing Water Directive. It is not a statement about conditions today, and it applies to the designated site only — not to the wider coastline, the river feeding it, or any other water nearby. England's season runs 15 May to 30 September; Wales matches it and Scotland does not, so classifications are not compared across the border here.
Source and provenance
Bathing water quality data — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-BATH · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Whether the postcode falls in an area licensed for coal mining, past or present
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A licence is a permission granted over an area — past, current or future — and licence areas are large. It is not a record that coal was worked there, and certainly not that anything was worked beneath a particular property.
Source and provenance
Coal mining information / map services — Mining Remediation Authority
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAL · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains data supplied by the Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
The rock mapped beneath this area, at 1:625,000
- Source period
- 1:625,000 national geology, bedrock v5 (2008)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Mapped at 1:625,000 — a regional overview where one millimetre on the map is 625 metres on the ground. The boundary between two rock types can be hundreds of metres from where it is drawn, so this describes the district and not the ground under a particular building. It is a description of the rock, not an assessment of stability, subsidence or any other hazard.
Source and provenance
BGS OpenGeoscience — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-BGS · Open Government Licence (BGS OpenGeoscience) · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
Most recent nitrate result at the nearest river or lake point
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Nitrate as N at EASTFIELD DRAIN AT B1261 - EASTFIELD, sampled 18 March 2026.
One sample at the named point, measured as nitrogen. River nitrate is strongly seasonal and driven by land use in the whole catchment upstream, so it describes the catchment rather than this postcode. It is not a drinking water measurement.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Most recent reactive orthophosphate result at the nearest river or lake point
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Orthophosphate, reactive as P at EASTFIELD DRAIN AT B1261 - EASTFIELD, sampled 18 March 2026.
One sample at the named point, measured as phosphorus. Phosphate comes from sewage effluent and from agriculture across the catchment, and the standard that would make a figure good or bad differs by river type — none is published with the result, so none is applied here.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Deposits lying over the bedrock, where any are mapped
- Source period
- 1:625,000 national geology, bedrock v5 (2008)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Superficial deposits are the loose material — clay, sand, gravel, peat, river alluvium — laid over the bedrock since the Ice Age. Much of Britain has none mapped at 1:625,000, and so does anywhere a deposit is too small or too thin to draw at that scale: "none mapped" does not mean bedrock at the surface. Same scale caveat as bedrock geology.
Source and provenance
BGS OpenGeoscience — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-BGS · Open Government Licence (BGS OpenGeoscience) · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
The geological material the soils here have formed over
- Source period
- 2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
One value for a whole square kilometre, describing the material soils form over rather than the soil itself. Conditions in one garden can differ completely. Generalised from BGS's 1:50,000 model, and not a soil survey: it carries no pH, organic carbon or nutrient status.
Source and provenance
Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
Most recent dissolved oxygen result at the nearest river or lake point
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Oxygen, Dissolved as O2 at EASTFIELD DRAIN AT B1261 - EASTFIELD, sampled 18 March 2026.
One sample at the named point, in milligrams per litre. Dissolved oxygen swings with temperature and time of day — a summer afternoon reading and a dawn reading at the same spot differ substantially — so a single value is a snapshot rather than a characteristic of the river. Percentage saturation is a different quantity and is not mixed in here.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Other determinands measured at the nearest river or lake point in the last three years
- Source period
- 2025–2026
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
What the Environment Agency measures at this point, not what it found. The list reflects why the point exists — a point downstream of an industrial discharge is tested for different things from one on a chalk stream — so a long list means close attention rather than a problem.
Source and provenance
Water Quality Archive — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
WATER-WQA · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
BGS's grain-size class for the material beneath: clay-rich, sandy, gravelly or peat
- Source period
- 2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The publisher's own classification, reported as it stands. Argillaceous means clay-rich, arenaceous sandy, rudaceous gravelly. Clay-rich ground raises the potential for shrink-swell movement, but whether that ever matters depends on foundations, drains, trees and the weather — none of which are in this data. This is not a subsidence assessment.
Source and provenance
Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
The texture range expected over this parent material
- Source period
- 2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A modelled expectation for a 1 km square, not a measurement of any garden. Made ground, imported topsoil and long cultivation can leave a plot bearing no resemblance to the square it sits in.
Source and provenance
Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
How deep soils here typically run before reaching the parent material
- Source period
- 2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A broad class — deep, intermediate or shallow — for a kilometre square. Not a depth to rock at any point, and no substitute for a site investigation.
Source and provenance
Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
How much chalk or limestone the underlying material holds
- Source period
- 2014 (v1, derived from Parent Material Model 1:50,000 v6)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Describes the ground, not the water supply: how hard the water is at a tap depends on where the water company draws it from, which can be many miles away.
Source and provenance
Soil Parent Material Model — 1 km open version — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-SOILPARENT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
Declared status for the Environment Agency area, as at the last report
- Source period
- 2026-08-21
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Declared for one of 14 Environment Agency operational areas, each covering several counties — this is the status of the wider area and not of this postcode. The Agency sometimes declares different statuses for different catchments inside one area, in which case both are shown. Reports are published weekly and only during a dry weather event; between events there is no current status, which is not the same as a declaration that conditions are normal. England only.
Source and provenance
Dry weather and drought status reports — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-DROUGHT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dry weather and drought status published by the Environment Agency.
Straight-line distance to the edge of the nearest recorded site
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Scarborough Holder Station.
A historic landfill is a site where the Environment Agency holds a record that waste was tipped, usually decades ago and often before waste licensing began in 1974. This is a record of a former site. It is NOT a statement about contamination, landfill gas, ground stability or any risk to any property, and it is not a substitute for an environmental search when buying a home. Records are knowingly incomplete — much of the pre-1974 content came from a survey of local authority records in the early 1990s — so the absence of a site nearby is not evidence that none existed. Some outlines are circles drawn around a map reference rather than surveyed boundaries.
Source and provenance
Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDFILL-H · Reuse/licence statement must be checked dataset-by-dataset · imported 24 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. Contains information © Local Authorities. Used under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence.
How much the clay in this 5 km area is rated to swell and shrink with moisture
- Source period
- GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
THIS IS AREA CONTEXT, NOT A SURVEY. The rating covers a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres — bigger than most towns — and BGS state on the data itself that it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Shrink-swell is the clay behaviour behind most subsidence claims in Britain, and it changes street by street with the drift geology a 65 square kilometre average cannot see. Whether it matters at a particular house also depends on foundations, drains, nearby trees and the weather, none of which are in this dataset. Only a survey can answer for a property.
Source and provenance
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
The Environment Agency's own summary, verbatim
- Source period
- 2026-08-21
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The Environment Agency's national summary of rainfall, river flows, groundwater and reservoir storage, quoted from the current weekly report. It describes England as a whole, so it is the same text for every English postcode and is context for the area status rather than a local measurement.
Source and provenance
Dry weather and drought status reports — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-DROUGHT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dry weather and drought status published by the Environment Agency.
What the Environment Agency's record calls the nearest site
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The name in the record, which is usually the name of the land or the quarry the tip occupied rather than anything on the ground today. Many of these sites have been built on, landscaped or returned to farmland since.
Source and provenance
Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDFILL-H · Reuse/licence statement must be checked dataset-by-dataset · imported 24 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. Contains information © Local Authorities. Used under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence.
How prone the ground across this 5 km area is rated to slope instability
- Source period
- GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Susceptibility is not occurrence: this does not record that any landslide has ever happened here, and a hexagon rated low can still contain a steep unstable slope too small to show at national scale.
Source and provenance
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
Which of the 14 operational areas covers this postcode
- Source period
- 2026-08-21
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
One of 14 operational areas the Environment Agency uses in England, each covering several counties. It is the geography drought status and water situation reports are published for, and it has no bearing on anything at property level.
Source and provenance
Dry weather and drought status reports — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-DROUGHT · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dry weather and drought status published by the Environment Agency.
The categories of waste the record says went into the nearest site
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The categories recorded, where any were recorded at all. Blank means the Environment Agency's record does not say, not that nothing of that kind went in — the dataset carries its own "waste type unknown" flag for exactly that reason and it is shown here when set. The categories are broad regulatory ones and say nothing about quantity, depth or what remains.
Source and provenance
Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDFILL-H · Reuse/licence statement must be checked dataset-by-dataset · imported 24 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. Contains information © Local Authorities. Used under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence.
How likely dissolvable rock — chalk, limestone, gypsum, salt — is to underlie this 5 km area
- Source period
- GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Dissolution features are by nature local: a hexagon rated low can contain a swallow hole, and a hexagon rated significant contains no sinkhole under most of the properties in it.
Source and provenance
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
How likely soft ground that settles under load is to underlie this 5 km area
- Source period
- GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Compressible deposits — peat, soft alluvium, made ground — follow valley floors and former marshes, so they can be present under one street and absent from the next.
Source and provenance
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
First and last recorded waste input at the nearest site
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Dates are frequently absent, and where present they record what the Environment Agency's files show rather than when tipping actually started and stopped. A missing closing date does not mean the site is still in use — every site in this dataset is one with no environmental permit in force.
Source and provenance
Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDFILL-H · Reuse/licence statement must be checked dataset-by-dataset · imported 24 August 2026
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. Contains information © Local Authorities. Used under the Environment Agency Conditional Licence.
How likely deposits that collapse when wetted or loaded are to underlie this 5 km area
- Source period
- GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Collapsible deposits are uncommon in Britain and are mostly wind-blown silt; a low rating is the usual answer and carries little information about any individual site.
Source and provenance
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
Recorded former tips whose outline falls within a kilometre
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
How many recorded former landfill sites the Environment Agency's register places within a kilometre. A count of records, not of hazards, and not a complete count of sites: undocumented tips, especially small ones closed before the 1970s, are simply absent from the register. Sites are clustered where old quarries and gravel pits were, so a high count often reflects local geology.
Source and provenance
Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDFILL-H · Reuse/licence statement must be checked dataset-by-dataset · imported 24 August 2026
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Whether the boundary is surveyed or approximated
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Roughly one site in five in this register has no surveyed boundary at all — its outline is a circle drawn around a single map reference. Where that is the case the distance shown above is approximate, and the true edge of the tip could lie in any direction from the point recorded.
Source and provenance
Historic Landfill Sites — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDFILL-H · Reuse/licence statement must be checked dataset-by-dataset · imported 24 August 2026
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How likely water-bearing sand that can flow into excavations is to underlie this 5 km area
- Source period
- GeoSure v8, generalised to 5 km hexagons
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Susceptibility of the wider area, on a hexagon of about 65 square kilometres, and BGS state it is "not suitable for local or site specific analysis". Running sand is a problem for excavation and drainage work rather than for a standing building, and whether it is met at all depends on the depth dug and the water table on the day.
Source and provenance
BGS GeoSure 5 km hex grid — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-GEOSURE-OPEN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 24 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026
Ground height at the postcode centroid, from OS Terrain 50
- Source period
- 2026-07
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
THIS IS NOT A FLOOD MEASURE. Height above sea level says nothing about whether a place floods — that depends on catchment, drainage, tide and defences. It is the bare ground at the postcode centroid from Ordnance Survey's open 50 m terrain model, which OS verify at 4 m RMSE and which contains no buildings. The centroid is the mean of the postcode's addresses and in a rural postcode can sit in a field.
Source and provenance
OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
Permitted waste sites within 1 km
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is No permitted waste operation is registered within 1 km. A permit records that the Environment Agency has authorised a regulated activity at a place; it is not a measurement of pollution..
A permit records that the Environment Agency has AUTHORISED a waste activity at a site, under conditions it sets and enforces. It is not a measurement of pollution, not an incident, and says nothing about how the site behaves. Counts entries within 1 km of the postcode centroid, excluding expired registrations. England only.
Source and provenance
Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
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How much warmer summers here are projected to be at 2 °C of global warming, against 1981-2000
- Source period
- UKCP18 RCP8.5 regional projections at 1.5-4 °C global warming levels, against a 1981-2000 baseline
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Projection, not a forecast. Summer averaged 14.6 °C here in 1981-2000. At 2 °C of global warming the models project +1.3 to +2.3 °C on that (mid estimate +1.9); at 4 °C of global warming, +3.3 to +4.4 °C. Assumes a high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5)..
A PROJECTION, NOT A FORECAST. This is what climate models simulate under an assumed high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5), at a stated level of global warming rather than in a stated year — the Met Office index it that way because the year each warming level is reached differs between model runs. Nobody knows which pathway the world will follow, and the Met Office note that RCP8.5 sits considerably above current policy. The figure is a range because the models themselves disagree; the range is the message, not a margin of error on a prediction. It describes a 144 square kilometre model grid cell relative to the 1981-2000 model baseline, not a temperature anyone will measure at this address.
Source and provenance
UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), 12 km regional strand — Met Office / CEDA
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-UKCP · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Met Office data © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Derived from UKCP18 regional (12 km) climate projections.
Highest ground minus lowest ground within 500 m
- Source period
- 2026-07
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The spread of ground heights within 500 m, from a 50 m model with 4 m vertical accuracy. A large range means broken or hilly ground somewhere in that circle, not that the postcode itself is on a slope.
Source and provenance
OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
Permitted installations within 1 km
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Within 1 km: permitted industrial installations, with no activity description published. A permit records that the Environment Agency has AUTHORISED this activity under conditions — it is not evidence of pollution and says nothing about how the site behaves..
Installations permitted under the Environmental Permitting Regulations within 1 km. The register includes a great many small standby generators and medium combustion plants in office and hospital basements alongside heavy industry, so a count says how much regulated plant is nearby, not how industrial the area feels. A permit is an authorisation, not evidence of emissions.
Source and provenance
Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026
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Days a year above 30 °C projected here at 2 °C of global warming, against 1981-2000
- Source period
- UKCP18 RCP8.5 regional projections at 1.5-4 °C global warming levels, against a 1981-2000 baseline
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Projection, not a forecast. Days above 30 °C averaged 0.0 a year here in 1981-2000. At 2 °C of global warming the models project 0.4 to 1.4 days a year (mid estimate 0.6); at 4 °C of global warming, 2.5 to 6.4. Assumes a high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5)..
A PROJECTION, NOT A FORECAST, under an assumed high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5) at a stated level of global warming rather than in a stated year. It counts how often a maximum of 30 °C is exceeded, not by how much, and the Met Office describe the result as "an approximation … as there will be many factors such as natural variability and local scale processes that the climate model is unable to represent". The name is only a label for the threshold: days above 30 °C outside the summer months count too. It describes a 144 square kilometre model grid cell, and the range shown is the disagreement between model runs.
Source and provenance
UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), 12 km regional strand — Met Office / CEDA
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-UKCP · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Met Office data © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Derived from UKCP18 regional (12 km) climate projections.
Permits to keep or use radioactive material within 1 km
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is No radioactive substances permit is registered within 1 km. A permit records that the Environment Agency has authorised a regulated activity at a place; it is not a measurement of pollution..
These permits overwhelmingly cover hospitals, universities, laboratories and industrial measuring gauges. A permit authorises holding or using a regulated material safely under conditions — it is not a release, not a leak and not a hazard, and treating a count as a risk signal would be plainly wrong.
Source and provenance
Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026
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How much wetter or drier winters here are projected to be at 2 °C of global warming
- Source period
- UKCP18 RCP8.5 regional projections at 1.5-4 °C global warming levels, against a 1981-2000 baseline
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Projection, not a forecast. Winter rainfall averaged 1.77 mm a day here in 1981-2000. At 2 °C of global warming the models project -9.9% to +12.6% on that (mid estimate +4.7%); at 4 °C of global warming, +3.0% to +14.9%. A seasonal average: it says nothing about individual storms. Assumes a high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5)..
A PROJECTION, NOT A FORECAST, under an assumed high-emissions pathway (RCP8.5) at a stated level of global warming rather than in a stated year. It is a change in the SEASONAL AVERAGE of daily rainfall, and the Met Office state that values averaged over a season "do not represent possible extreme conditions" — so it says nothing about storms, downpours or flooding, and must not be read as a flood risk. The range spans the disagreement between model runs and can include both drier and wetter outcomes at the same warming level. It describes a 144 square kilometre model grid cell against the 1981-2000 model baseline.
Source and provenance
UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), 12 km regional strand — Met Office / CEDA
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-UKCP · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains Met Office data © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Derived from UKCP18 regional (12 km) climate projections.
Gradient of the ground over a 100 m window around the postcode
- Source period
- 2026-07
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Calculated here rather than published: a plane fitted to the terrain-model heights within 100 m of the postcode. It describes the hillside, not a garden or a driveway — features that small are below the resolution of a 50 m model.
Source and provenance
OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
Permitted discharges to water or ground within 1 km
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Within 1 km: Sewage - Sewage in an Emergency; Sewage - Storm Sewage. A permit records that the Environment Agency has AUTHORISED this activity under conditions — it is not evidence of pollution and says nothing about how the site behaves..
Most entries are small private sewage treatment plants serving individual properties that are not on the mains, rather than industrial outfalls. A permit sets the conditions a discharge must meet; it is not a measurement of what is discharged and not evidence that any limit has been exceeded. The catalogued register name "Discharge Consents" does not exist as an endpoint — the working register is water-discharges.
Source and provenance
Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026
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Compass direction the surrounding ground faces downhill
- Source period
- 2026-07
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
The direction the ground falls away over the same 100 m window as the slope figure. One of eight compass points, because a 50 m model cannot support a bearing in degrees. It describes the landform, not which way a particular house faces.
Source and provenance
OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
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Height at the postcode against the average of the kilometre around it
- Source period
- 2026-07
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Positive means the postcode sits above the average ground of the surrounding kilometre. A landform comparison only: it is not a statement about drainage, exposure or flooding, and it changes with the size of the circle chosen.
Source and provenance
OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
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Distance to the closest entry on any Environment Agency register
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Using waste for a specified purpose|Using waste to manufacture finished goods|Storing waste in a secure place|Treating waste toner and ink cartridges. An authorised activity, not a pollution finding..
The closest site within 5 km holding a current Environment Agency permit, registration or exemption of any kind. A permit means an activity is authorised and regulated there — it is not a pollution finding, and the great majority of these sites are ordinary businesses, farms and buildings complying with the law.
Source and provenance
Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026
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Whether the postcode sits above or below its surroundings
- Source period
- 2026-07
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Anything within ten metres of the surrounding average is called level, because a single height post carries about 4 m of error and a smaller gap would be reading the model's noise. Says nothing about flood risk.
Source and provenance
OS Terrain 50 — Ordnance Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-TERRAIN · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
Current register entries of every kind within 1 km
- Source period
- 2026-08-24
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Across 3 Environment Agency registers. Every entry is an activity the Agency has authorised under conditions; none of it is a record of pollution..
Counts every current entry across the Environment Agency registers held here — installations, waste operations, water discharges, radioactive substances, scrap metal, end-of-life vehicles, flood risk activities and waste exemptions. Waste exemptions in particular are small-scale low-risk activities registered in very large numbers, especially on farms, so a high count in a rural area reflects farming rather than industry. Every entry is an authorised activity, not pollution.
Source and provenance
Public Registers for environmental information — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-REGISTER · Environment Agency Conditional Licence · imported 24 August 2026
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Whether this postcode falls inside a mapped coastal erosion risk zone, and what is projected for the coast there
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
Falling inside a mapped zone is not the same as being projected to be lost. The zone runs from the Mean High Water Springs line to the backshore feature — a cliff, dune, defence or rising ground — before it runs landward by the projected retreat, so part of every zone is shore rather than land expected to go. The projected distances beside this answer are what say how far the coast is expected to retreat. The Environment Agency states that this data is "intended for guidance only - it cannot provide details for individual properties", and that it "shows areas of land likely to be at erosion risk but does not show the precise future position of the shoreline". Erosion may happen faster or slower than shown, and the risk may change over time. Every distance is a CUMULATIVE total by the year given, not a yearly rate. Every figure also depends on two choices: which management scenario is assumed — "with the shoreline management plan delivered" assumes the funded plan for this stretch of coast is actually carried out, "no future intervention" assumes nothing is maintained — and which sea level allowance, the present-day baseline or the UKCP18 RCP8.5 70th or 95th percentile. The Environment Agency issues no erosion projection at all where the plan is to hold the line for the full period to 2105, so on a defended frontage the plan-delivered figure is an absence of a projection rather than a projection of nothing — and where a plan-delivered figure of zero IS shown, it means the defence is assumed to hold, not that the coast is stable. The mapped zone also runs from the Mean High Water Springs line to the backshore feature before it runs landward, so part of it is shore rather than land expected to be lost. NCERM maps the coast of England only, so near the Welsh or Scottish border there may be eroding coast closer than anything shown here. Coastal flooding is a separate matter with a separate map, and the Environment Agency states that erosion of foreshore features is generally not included.
Source and provenance
National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) — National (2024) — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAST · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
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How far this postcode is from the nearest stretch of coast mapped for erosion
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is 2.4 km to the nearest mapped coastal erosion risk zone on the The Tyne to Flamborough Head shoreline management plan. NCERM maps the coast of England only, so near the Welsh or Scottish border there may be eroding coast closer than this..
A distance to the nearest mapped zone, not a distance to the sea and not a measure of safety: a postcode 500 m from a frontage with a delivered Hold The Line plan is in a very different position from one 500 m from an unmanaged cliff, and the exposure metric beside this one is what says which. The Environment Agency states that this data is "intended for guidance only - it cannot provide details for individual properties", and that it "shows areas of land likely to be at erosion risk but does not show the precise future position of the shoreline". Erosion may happen faster or slower than shown, and the risk may change over time. Every distance is a CUMULATIVE total by the year given, not a yearly rate. Every figure also depends on two choices: which management scenario is assumed — "with the shoreline management plan delivered" assumes the funded plan for this stretch of coast is actually carried out, "no future intervention" assumes nothing is maintained — and which sea level allowance, the present-day baseline or the UKCP18 RCP8.5 70th or 95th percentile. The Environment Agency issues no erosion projection at all where the plan is to hold the line for the full period to 2105, so on a defended frontage the plan-delivered figure is an absence of a projection rather than a projection of nothing — and where a plan-delivered figure of zero IS shown, it means the defence is assumed to hold, not that the coast is stable. The mapped zone also runs from the Mean High Water Springs line to the backshore feature before it runs landward, so part of it is shore rather than land expected to be lost. NCERM maps the coast of England only, so near the Welsh or Scottish border there may be eroding coast closer than anything shown here. Coastal flooding is a separate matter with a separate map, and the Environment Agency states that erosion of foreshore features is generally not included.
Source and provenance
National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) — National (2024) — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAST · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
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Cumulative metres of coastal retreat projected for the nearest frontage by 2055 and by 2105
- Source period
- 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is For the nearest mapped frontage on the The Tyne to Flamborough Head shoreline management plan, the headline figure is the worst of the twelve the Environment Agency publishes: 25 m of cumulative erosion by 2105 with no future intervention, on the upper-end sea level allowance. Along this frontage the Environment Agency projects cumulative erosion of 4–8 m by 2055 and 10–25 m by 2105 if the coast here is not maintained. With the shoreline management plan delivered it projects 4–8 m by 2055 and 10–25 m by 2105. Each range spans the present-day, higher-central and upper-end sea level allowances, and each figure is a cumulative total by that year rather than a yearly rate. This postcode is 2392 m outside every mapped zone, so these are figures for the coast nearby rather than for this postcode..
The number shown is the worst of the twelve the Environment Agency publishes for this frontage — cumulative metres by 2105 with no future intervention, on the upper-end sea level allowance — and the other eleven are in the sentence beside it. It is a total by 2105, not a yearly rate, and it describes the frontage rather than this postcode: the coast may be some way off, and the exposure metric says how far. The Environment Agency states that this data is "intended for guidance only - it cannot provide details for individual properties", and that it "shows areas of land likely to be at erosion risk but does not show the precise future position of the shoreline". Erosion may happen faster or slower than shown, and the risk may change over time. Every distance is a CUMULATIVE total by the year given, not a yearly rate. Every figure also depends on two choices: which management scenario is assumed — "with the shoreline management plan delivered" assumes the funded plan for this stretch of coast is actually carried out, "no future intervention" assumes nothing is maintained — and which sea level allowance, the present-day baseline or the UKCP18 RCP8.5 70th or 95th percentile. The Environment Agency issues no erosion projection at all where the plan is to hold the line for the full period to 2105, so on a defended frontage the plan-delivered figure is an absence of a projection rather than a projection of nothing — and where a plan-delivered figure of zero IS shown, it means the defence is assumed to hold, not that the coast is stable. The mapped zone also runs from the Mean High Water Springs line to the backshore feature before it runs landward, so part of it is shore rather than land expected to be lost. NCERM maps the coast of England only, so near the Welsh or Scottish border there may be eroding coast closer than anything shown here. Coastal flooding is a separate matter with a separate map, and the Environment Agency states that erosion of foreshore features is generally not included.
Source and provenance
National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping (NCERM) — National (2024) — Environment Agency
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-COAST · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
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- Arsenic
- Cadmium
- Chromium
- Copper
- Nickel
- Lead
- Selenium
- Zinc
Modelled concentrations of eight trace elements in the topsoil of this 500 m square
- Source period
- Topsoil samples 1978-2014, modelled surface published 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town.
A MODELLED ESTIMATE FOR A 500 METRE SQUARE, NOT A SOIL TEST. Predicted by kriging from 57,966 topsoil samples collected between 1978 and 2014, using the nearest five to eight samples within 10 km — so the nearest real sample can be kilometres away and up to 48 years old, and nothing was dug up here. These are total concentrations by X-ray fluorescence, not the fraction a plant or a child could absorb. They are contextual chemistry and NOT a contamination assessment: they are not compared with any screening or assessment criterion, and no value here can say a garden is safe or unsafe. Much of the variation is natural geology rather than pollution. Most of Scotland was never surveyed and shows as not sampled.
Source and provenance
UK topsoil geochemistry raster (UKTS) — British Geological Survey / partners
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-UKTOPSOIL · Open Government Licence v3.0 (raster products) · imported 25 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey and Geological Survey of Northern Ireland materials © NERC, UKRI [2023]; British Geological Survey-Rothamsted Research XRF Dataset, based on sub-samples at Rothamsted Research from the National Soil Inventory of England and Wales sample archive, National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University
Modelled total lead in the topsoil of this 500 m square, in mg/kg
- Source period
- Topsoil samples 1978-2014, modelled surface published 2024
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is Modelled total lead, 58.2 mg/kg, for the 500 m square containing this postcode.
A MODELLED ESTIMATE OF TOTAL LEAD FOR A 500 METRE SQUARE, NOT A SOIL TEST. Lead is shown because it has the clearest health literature for garden and allotment soil; the other seven elements are on the topsoil geochemistry profile. Predicted by kriging from samples collected between 1978 and 2014, so the nearest real measurement can be kilometres away and decades old, and roadside, industrial and demolition legacies at a particular address are invisible at this scale. Total lead by XRF, not the bioaccessible fraction. This figure is NOT compared to any screening value and cannot say whether soil here is safe: only a test of the actual ground can. Most of Scotland was never surveyed and shows as not sampled.
Source and provenance
UK topsoil geochemistry raster (UKTS) — British Geological Survey / partners
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-UKTOPSOIL · Open Government Licence v3.0 (raster products) · imported 25 August 2026
Contains British Geological Survey and Geological Survey of Northern Ireland materials © NERC, UKRI [2023]; British Geological Survey-Rothamsted Research XRF Dataset, based on sub-samples at Rothamsted Research from the National Soil Inventory of England and Wales sample archive, National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University
How far this postcode is from the nearest mapped airport noise contour
- Source period
- 2021 traffic (Environmental Noise Regulations Round 4)
Representative-location estimate at YO11 3LF, the active postcode nearest the centre point of the official settlement boundary. This is not a town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the town. The named source result is 90.7 km to the nearest mapped airport noise contour, around Leeds Bradford Airport. Only the fifteen English airports above 50,000 aircraft movements a year are mapped, so a smaller airport or airfield may be closer than this..
Read the word "mapped". This is the distance to the nearest contour Defra publish, not to the nearest airport: eleven of England's airports, and every airport in Scotland and Wales, are below the threshold that requires mapping and appear nowhere in this measurement. A large distance therefore means no MAPPED contour is nearby, which is not the same as no aircraft noise. Distances are measured to a 50 m cell, so they are accurate to a few tens of metres rather than exactly. Strategic noise mapping is a MODEL of annual-average aircraft noise for 2021 air traffic, run on a 10 m grid at 4 m above the ground. Nobody took a measurement, and nothing here reflects traffic since 2021. Only the fifteen English airports with 50,000 or more aircraft movements a year are mapped, because that is what the Environmental Noise Regulations require — so the absence of a contour is a statement about the law, not about the sky. Scotland maps aircraft noise only summed together with road, rail and industry, and Wales has no airport large enough to require mapping at all. The dB bands shown are our own grouping of Defra's continuous values. The level is taken as the loudest modelled value within 50 m of the centre of the postcode, which is an average of its addresses rather than any one building. Single flights, flight paths and how many aircraft pass overhead are not in this dataset at any level.
Source and provenance
Airport noise, all metrics, England, Round 4 — Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-AIRPORTNOISE · Open Government Licence v3.0 · imported 25 August 2026
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How far away the nearest landslide in the national record is
- Source period
- 2026
Reading at the active settlement postcode nearest the point-on-surface of the official boundary, with postcode tie-break. This is not a Town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the settlement. Distance searches indicative survey points within 25 km; the count uses a 1 km radius and is not a count of unique landslide events. Records with positional uncertainty above 1 km are excluded; uncertainty affects proximity. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported. No eligible record is not evidence of stable ground or absence of hazard. Not a property hazard, susceptibility or insurance assessment. Seek professional advice before technical interpretation. Automated number checks are applied; the metric-specific numeric rules have not yet been reviewed.
Straight-line distance from the postcode centroid to an indicative recorded survey point, not to a landslide boundary or its nearest edge. Points do not describe landslide size or extent. The record's positional uncertainty is stated with the result; records located to worse than 1 km are excluded, and the search extends to 25 km. Several surveys can describe the same landslide. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported: no nearby eligible record is not evidence that the ground is stable. This is not a property hazard or susceptibility assessment. Not for insurance purposes. Obtain professional advice before technical interpretation; this information does not replace detailed ground investigation.
Source and provenance
National Landslide Database / GeoIndex index — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
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How many landslides in the national record are within a kilometre
- Source period
- 2026
Reading at the active settlement postcode nearest the point-on-surface of the official boundary, with postcode tie-break. This is not a Town-wide total and may vary elsewhere in the settlement. Distance searches indicative survey points within 25 km; the count uses a 1 km radius and is not a count of unique landslide events. Records with positional uncertainty above 1 km are excluded; uncertainty affects proximity. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported. No eligible record is not evidence of stable ground or absence of hazard. Not a property hazard, susceptibility or insurance assessment. Seek professional advice before technical interpretation. Automated number checks are applied; the metric-specific numeric rules have not yet been reviewed.
Count of eligible recorded survey points within 1 km of the postcode centroid, not a count of unique landslide events. Several surveys can describe the same landslide. Points are indicative locations, not landslide boundaries or extents. Locations are uncertain; records located to worse than 1 km are excluded, and uncertainty can affect whether a point falls within the radius. The register is incomplete and unevenly reported, so clusters can reflect survey effort. Zero means no eligible record within the radius, not that the ground is stable. This is not a property hazard or susceptibility assessment. Not for insurance purposes. Obtain professional advice before technical interpretation; this information does not replace detailed ground investigation.
Source and provenance
National Landslide Database / GeoIndex index — British Geological Survey
Method: Reading at the representative postcode.
ENV-LANDSLIDE · BGS OpenGeoscience / NLD terms; verify exact redistribution terms · imported 25 October 2026
Published 26 October 2026. Freshness runs for seven days from successful publication.
Fetched 25 October 2026.
Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026