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Departmental response to a Telegraph story suggesting new planning reforms could lead to houses being built on floodplains

皇冠体育app Department responds to an article in the Telegraph suggesting that new planning laws could lead to tens of thousands of 鈥渦ninhabitable and鈥�

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021) and 皇冠体育app Rt Hon Grant Shapps
Published
20 September 2011
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

皇冠体育app Department responds to an article in the Telegraph suggesting that new planning laws could lead to tens of thousands of 鈥渦ninhabitable and unsellable鈥� homes being built on floodplains.

A spokesperson said:

This suggestion is completely untrue and has no factual basis. We are maintaining the requirement for a strategic flood risk assessment to inform local plans, and keeping the need for individual planning applications in flood risk areas to be supported by a site-specific flood risk assessment. Planning protection against flooding is being kept.

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Published 20 September 2011