Flooding concern over Surfleet flats plan | Updated: 15:20, 17 February 2021 Planners have held off making a decision on a bid to convert a pub into flats over flooding concerns. Members of South Holland District Councilâs Planning Committee deferred N Bondâs application to create seven flats at the Riverside Hotel in Surfleet. Councillors expressed safety concerns about a one bedroom flat being created within the buildingâs cellar due to the location next to the River Welland. Riverside Hotel in Surfleet. Officers have been asked to go back and look at the flood risk on the site. The virtual meeting on Wednesday was told that the majority of the building was in flood zone one, while there was an element in flood zone 3 along with the fact that Environment Agency (EA) had lodged a technical objection.