Does PL6 flood?

Yes — parts of the PL6 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 19 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PL6 postcode district covers Moor View, Southway, Budshead, close to Bickleigh, Plympton, Devonport, and surrounding villages in parts of Devon and England.

19 postcodes in the PL6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 8 medium, 5 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 PL6 postcodes are at risk?

PL6 7AG up to High PL6 7AW up to High PL6 7BZ up to High PL6 7SA up to High PL6 8LD up to High PL6 8LF up to High PL6 7AN up to Medium PL6 8AY up to Medium PL6 8ET up to Medium PL6 8LB up to Medium PL6 8LL up to Medium PL6 8LN up to Medium PL6 8LT up to Medium PL6 8LX up to Medium PL6 5BN up to Low PL6 5ES up to Low PL6 6QB up to Low PL6 8AR up to Low PL6 8LH up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near PL6

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

Carnwood on the River Plym — 2.3 km away, highest on record 2.55m
CARNWOOD — 2.3 km away
Plympton on the Long Brook — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.61m
Newnham Park on the Tory Brook — 4.6 km away, highest on record 1.45m

357 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (59 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Plympton (2023) — about 2.6 km from the centre
River Plym and Meavy (2022) — about 2.2 km from the centre
Plympton (2021) — about 4.2 km from the centre
CW9347 - Plympton (2014) — about 2.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PL5 PL7 PL4 PL8 PL3 PL9 PL10 PL2

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.