Plain dealing revisited
Think tank: Localis
Author(s): Sandy Forsyth
October 10, 2024
This report from UK think tank Localis looks at planning for flood resilience.
In autumn 2021, Localis published ‘Plain Dealing – building for flood resilience’. The study took for its context the sense that development on flood risk areas sits at the intersection of the housing and climate crises.
In the three years since publication 22 named storms have made impact on the UK and Ireland – In 2023 alone, weather-related home insurance claims reached a staggering £573m in the UK, with flood damage following storms accounting for £286m.
Labour’s 2024 general election win was delivered on pledges to greatly increase housebuilding, requiring a careful balancing of climate resilience measures with robust planning policies and transparent decision-making.
Plain Dealing Revisited reviews the policy landscape for flood resilience in new and existing developments, takes stock of the capacity for strategic management across levels of government and provides practical policy recommendations to ensure climate resilience can be built into the national effort to address the housing crisis.
