Member

The Government have a perfect opportunity to ensure that the development that is envisaged to proceed at pace under the Bill will not contribute to future floods, by implementing Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 to make sure that sustainable drains are mandatory. I take the point put to me in the meetings: that the National Policy Planning Framework states that SUDS should be built. But that is not statutory and has no legal basis whatsoever, and that is why I would like to see this written into the Bill.