Comment

Representation ID: 19554

Received: 25/02/2009

Respondent: Trustees of the Glyndebourne 1991 L & P Trust

Agent: Mr. Dale Mayhew

PPS25 seeks to ensure that flood risk is taken into account in the planning system, to avoid inappropriate development, and where development is exceptionally necessary in such areas, the policy is then to make it safe without increasing flood risk elsewhere and possibly reducing flood risk overall.
It is therefore important that the preferred strategy for flood risk within the Document acknowledges that within an overall context of minimising flood risk, some development in areas at risk of flooding may be acceptable, having regard to wider sustainability benefits, and through application of the sequential test and exception test.
The strategy should also indicate that regard will be had to areas for development which benefit
from the provision of flood defences, which can provide a high level of protection.