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Flood review calls for withdrawal of development rights

Ben Willis, PlanningResource, 17 December 2007

Householders should no longer have the automatic right to lay impermeable surfaces in gardens or driveways according to an independent review of the summer's flooding.

The measure is one of a number of proposals for mitigating surface flooding outlined by Sir Michael Pitt in his interim report on managing flood risk. The report said that...

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