Planning: Flood Control
Commons · Question 75371 · Tabled 5 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 15 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
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
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 15 Sep 2025
The 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.