Ann McGauran 17 January 2024

PAC: New housing continues to be built in high risk areas

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More than half of councils rarely or never inspect a new housing development to check compliance with flood risk planning conditions, a new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said.

The report on resilience to flooding said this means new housing continues to be built in high flood risk areas without sufficient mitigations.

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