31 July 2008
CIRIA’s Local Authority Network on Drainage and Flood Risk Management has found that around three-quarters of respondents believe councils should be responsible for co-ordinating surface water management plans.
30 June 2008
New-build home buyers will find it increasingly difficult to insure their houses, unless better protection against floods is built in, the Association of British Insurers has warned.
31 May 2008
Both responses to the disastrous summer 2007 floods and Government plans to tackle flooding have been criticised as inadequate by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee report into flooding* and by Council leaders, potentially calling into question many aspects of its crash programme on new housing and eco-towns. The most serious weakness EFRA finds is that “the 2007 floods revealed that, to date, most organisations – including Government – have focussed almost exclusively on river and coastal flooding, and much less so on surface water and groundwater flooding”.
31 October 2007
The Association of British Insurers has attacked the level of new funding for flood defences outlined in the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).
31 October 2007
Developers, the local planning authority and the Environment Agency are all facing the threat of legal action from residents of a West Yorkshire housing estate that was flooded.
31 October 2007
Communities minister Baroness Andrews told Liberal Democrat communities.
30 May 2007
New guidelines* advising on development in areas at increasing risk of flooding through have been published by DCLG.
13 February 2007
Several projects on planning and designing of sustainable housing in flood plain areas will receive funding from Defra.
23 November 2006
A big increase in house building need not endanger environmental sustainability with improved design, says Shelter.