PPG (Planning Policy Guidance) - Development and Flood Risk
Hot off the press is the Government's latest consultation draft: Planning Policy Guidance on Development and Flood Risk.*
*This consultation draft is now Planning Policy Guidance Note 25.
The guidance states that:
- the susceptibility of land to flooding is a material planning consideration;
- the Environment Agency has the lead role in providing advice on flood issues, at a strategic level and in relation to planning applications;
- policies in development plans should outline the consideration which will be given to flood issues, recognising the uncertainties that are inherent in the prediction of flooding and that flood risk is expected to increase as a result of climate change;
- planning decisions should apply the precautionary principle to the issue of flood risk, using a risk-based search sequence to avoid such risk where possible and managing it elsewhere;
- planning decisions should recognise the importance of functional flood plains, where water flows or is held at times of flood, and avoid inappropriate development on undeveloped and undefended flood plains;
- developers should fund flood defences and warning measures required because of the development; and
- planning policies and decisions should recognise that the consideration of flood risk and its management needs to be applied on a whole-catchment basis and not be restricted to flood plains.
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