Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 29951
Housing: Flood Control
Tabled: 7 February 2025
Answered: 19 February 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of houses in Local Plan sites highlighted in the NaFRA2 flood zone data as having a high (a) current and (b) future likeliho
Answer
Matthew PennycookThe revised National Planning Policy Framework that was published on 12 December 2024 is clear that new housing, and most other forms of development, should not be permitted in functional flood plains.Estimates have not been made of the number of homes wh...
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