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

The Department responds to an article in the Telegraph suggesting that new planning laws could lead to tens of thousands of “uninhabitable and…

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and The Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP
• Published: 20 September 2011

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The Department responds to an article in the Telegraph suggesting that new planning laws could lead to tens of thousands of “uninhabitable and unsellable” 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.

Published 20 September 2011