Object

Representation ID: 19488

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Environment Agency

It is accepted that where there is an identified need for regeneration, some development within the floodplain may be inevitable. If this can be justified with PPS25 the sites themselves should be sequentially tested; to ensure that higher vulnerability uses are located on parts of the site that are at lower risk of flooding.
Recommendation: Page 119-120. Criteria (d) and (h) from Box 33 should be removed as it repeats the provisions of PPS25 and a further criterion should be added: "Ensure that where the principle of development has been established on a site within an area of flood risk in accordance with PPS25, the layout and distribution of development is informed by any variation in flood risk across the site according to land use vulnerability".