Every time there is flooding in England, the question of building new homes in flood plains gets raised.
Despite the picture painted in some sections of the media, planning policy already controls housing development in areas at risk of flooding quite tightly. That can create challenges for local authorities when they are trying to plan where to deliver homes in the future.
In this piece for Housebuilder our managing director, Paul Smith, explains how the planning system controls development in flood plains and the inevitable trade offs in how we plan to deliver new homes that result.
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