Does L70 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in L70: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The L70 postcode district covers Waterfront South, close to Bootle, Moreton, Upton (Wirral), and surrounding villages in Liverpool City Region.

1 postcode in the L70 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which L70 postcodes are at risk?

L70 1AD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near L70

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

123 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (20 at warning level or above), most recently 4 September 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

L40 L39 L38 L37 L36 L35 L34 L33

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.