Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 56023
New Towns: Floods
Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it his Department's policy that the New Towns Taskforce will be able to allocate new towns on areas of functional floodplain.
Answer
Matthew PennycookThe revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 is clear that new housing and most other forms of development should not be permitted in functional flood plains.National planning policy and guidance expect flood risk assessmen...
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