| Heading: |
New Towns: Floods |
| Question ID: |
1807591 |
| UIN: |
56023 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5100 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Blake Stephenson
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Blake Stephenson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it his Department's policy that the New Towns Taskforce will be able to allocate new towns on areas of functional floodplain. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4520 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Matthew Pennycook
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| Answering Member handle: |
mtpennycook
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mtpennycook
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| Answer text: |
The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 is clear that new housing and most other forms of development should not be permitted in functional flood plains.National planning policy and guidance expect flood risk assessmen... |
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| Answering body ID: |
7 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government |
| Tweeted: |
true |