Environment Agency
Local Topography and Flood Risk Assessment

As with all of the services provided by NetSupport, we fully expect all companies to conduct suitable due diligence in satisfying the suitability of any future Business Continuity provider.

Key items for consideration include :

- Review of latest Audited Accounts - is the business sound ?
- Local Access Limitations - site accessibility in inclement weather.
- Existing customer feedback - are they happy with the service ?
- On site services - and redundancy thereof.
- Local Environmental factors - highways maintenance, flooding.

Location
The NetSupport Powerweb Business Continuity facility is situated in Market Deeping, a few miles to the north of Peterborough city centre. The site offers an ideal location for easy access for both companies, and most importantly your re-located staff, in the event of a disaster.

Market Deeping can be accessed from Peterborough by utilising either the A15 or indirectly on Lincoln road via the villages of Glinton and Northborough. In addition, direct access is available from the A1 via Stamford.



Accessing our Site
As is often the case, the smallest items tend to be the ones most likely to be omitted from a continuity provider checklist. Access limitation is a key factor for consideration. How many public roads service the site in question, if a single road, what would be the impact of a major road traffic accident?

If non-public roads are utilised to access the site how would these be affected by inclement weather conditions such as snow, and who has ownership and service responsibility of these.



NetSupport Powerweb's Site is serviced by distinct and independent entrances from both Towngate East and Blenheim Way, each providing separate access routing from three distinct directions ( as show in the map above) within Market Deeping.

All routes are subject to highways agency gritting services directly to both site entrances and are therefore not at risk of access limitations in bad weather.


Environmental Factors
An increasingly common question raised by customers is in relation to a potential business continuity sites' likely risk of flooding. NetSupport Powerweb can confirm that our Market Deeping site is not, nor has ever been, on a defined flood plain.

The NetSupport Business Continuity site has never experienced flooding, and as with all the aspects identified for consideration in the summary above, we are able to provide a full written confirmation from each relevant legislative body, in this case the environment agency. A PDF copy of this confirmation from the environment agency can be viewed here. The map below is taken directly from the agency website.

Environment agency assessment for the NetSupport site was :- "The location is in an area which fell well outside the extent of the extreme flood, at the time of our assessment of the likelihood of flooding. Generally this means that the chance of flooding each year from rivers or the sea is 0.1% (1 in 1000) or less."
This ratio was assigned to all regions of East Anglia that did not show a specific flood risk and is the lowest risk level available..