Housing & Planning bill Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

11 May 2016

SUDS & the Housing and Planning Bill – Water professionals collaborate

Whatever the eventual outcome of their activities it has been encouraging to see the Water professions collaborating to try and make progress on SuDS in the Housing and Planning Bill. Given the scale and costs of major storm and flood events and well as the ‘routine’ nature of flash flooding Government should be doing much […]

06 Apr 2016

Improving Flood Resilience – Professional bodies call on Lords to seize the opportunity

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Six professional bodies, led by CIWEM, representing 150,000 built environment professionals, including civil engineers, architects and environmental experts called on Lords to support a sustainable drainage amendment in the Housing and Planning Bill to improve the UK’s resilience to flooding. The amendment received cross-party support but unfortunately was not adopted at the Committee Stage. We […]