Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 75371
Planning: Flood Control
Tabled: 5 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025
Question
Blake Stephenson
Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislation on the treatment of flooding in the planning system before the end of the current Session.
Answer
Matthew PennycookThe government has no plans to bring forward primary legislation concerning the treatment of flooding in the planning system, given the strong safeguards which already exist in national planning policy.