Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 81948
Affordable Housing: Construction
Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025
Question
Jo Platt
Labour (Co-op) — Leigh and Atherton
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that affordable new homes are built to a high standard of flood resilience.
Answer
Matthew PennycookThe National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided by directing development away from areas at highest risk (whether existing or in the future). Where development is necessary i...
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