We welcome the Government’s commitment to act upon our recommendations regarding the cumulative impact on flood risk of smaller developments. While we recognise that national planning policy does refer to cumulative impacts, this has clearly not allayed concerns that these impacts are not given due regard when planning decisions are made. The Government should, as part of its review of planning policy for flood risk, establish to what extent flood risk is increased by the lack of scrutiny giv...

We welcome the Government’s commitment to act upon our recommendations regarding the cumulative impact on flood risk of smaller developments. While we recognise that national planning policy does refer to cumulative impacts, this has clearly not allayed concerns that these impacts are not given due regard when planning decisions are made. The Government should, as part of its review of planning policy for flood risk, establish to what extent flood risk is increased by the lack of scrutiny given to the cumulative impacts of smaller and permitted development. Type: recommendation | Number: 21 | Paragraph: 85 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: The Government recognises the potential impact of cumulative impacts from development and that these need to be carefully managed. Paragraph 169 of the National Planning Policy Framework18 sets out that plans should apply a sequential, risk-based approach to determining the suitability of land for d