Planning Permission: Flood Control
Commons · Question 79879 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to direct local authorities to always reject planning applications which the lead local flood authority deem would increase the risk of flooding for
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 20 Oct 2025
The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that inappropriate development in areas at risk of flooding should be avoided by directing development away from areas at highest risk (whether existing or future). Where development is necessary in such ...