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Housing: Flood Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of houses in Local Plan sites highlighted in the NaFRA2 flood zone data as having a high (a) current and (b) future likeliho

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
7 Feb 2025
Target answer date
11 Feb 2025
Answer
19 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of houses in Local Plan sites highlighted in the NaFRA2 flood zone data as having a high (a) current and (b) future likeliho

  2. 11 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The revised National Planning Policy Framework that was published on 12 December 2024 is clear that new housing, and most other forms of development, should not be permitted in functional flood plains.Estimates have not been made of the number of homes wh...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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