Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will issue statutory guidance on planning to local authorities to ensure that all future developments include flood mitigation measures.

The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that areas of flood risk should be avoided and where not possible then all risks should be mitigated.

This is supported by the Flood risk and coastal change Planning Practice Guidance which we significantly revised in August 2022.