Susan Roaf raises concerns about building in high-risk flood zones, Dr Leslie Jones addresses the lack of housing for rent, Kerry Thompson fears accessibility is being overlooked, while Catherine Dornan makes a case for truly affordable housing
At least slums are cheap to live in, and dry (England’s planning changes will create ‘generation of slums’, 5 August). Developers must now be licking their lips over Robert Jenrick’s planning shake-up as the gloves come off for new developments on flood plains.
As the Guardian has pointed out (Building new homes on land prone to flooding ‘making damage worse’, 25 February), between 2013 and 2018 over 84,000 homes were built in high-risk flood zones, one in 10 of all new homes in England. This green-light planning system will accelerate those figures.
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