Does SE1P flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in SE1P: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The SE1P postcode district covers London Bridge & West Bermondsey, close to Tower Pier, Westminster, Catford, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

1 postcode in the SE1P district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 very 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 SE1P postcodes are at risk?

SE1P 5RJ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SE1P

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

Catford Hill on the River Ravensbourne — 6.8 km away, highest on record 1.20m
Manor House Gardens on the River Quaggy — 7.3 km away, highest on record 1.08m
Winsford Road on the River Pool — 7.3 km away, highest on record 0.89m
Lea Bridge on the River Lee — 8.6 km away, highest on record 6.52m

207 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (3 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 0.4 km from the centre
TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 1.3 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.